unripe fruit, leave or pick before holiday

[lmayhow]

Hello hello

Off on our holidays (14days) and dont have a neighbour to pick fruit. I have tayberry and strawberry plants with unripe fruit on would you just leave them on and hope they dont rot before I return or take off? Tayberry is full full full... Reading about this risk of stopping the plant from refruiting because of rotten fruit while we are away, opinions please

[roitelet]

Leave them on and hope. If you take them off you will get nothing at all. Never heard the one about rotten fruit stopping the plant from re fruiting.

[veggiechicken]

Perhaps they mean the ripe fruit may set seed. The plant would put all its energy into the seeds and not producing more fruit?
I'd leave them on too, it'll be a few weeks before any of my tayberries will be ripe. I am picking strawberries though.

[Nicos]

Can you put something over them - to keep the birds etc from eating them?

But be careful- you can get birds and hedgehogs caught up in netting ...and if you're not there to check every day.....

yup- another vote for leaving the fruit on.

[lmayhow]

Thank you all for advice leave them on it is....