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Un grand merci @pansyface !!!

tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
in Problem solving
Such a big thank you for your precious advice this and past winters on the subject of pruning my red currant bushes.  I followed your advice to the letter and the result is amazing!!!

Have a lovely day!


A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    I dug out the red currant bushes after having a total of about 6 currants off them over 2 consecutive summers. They were producing lots of currents but the second the green started to hint at changing towards red - they'd be stripped almost overnight.

    Couldn't bear to net them after finding a dead blue tit caught in strawberry netting several years ago (yes it was stretched taut as per the books) and decided they were effectively just very large bird feeders. The pigeons and blackbirds have yet to forgive me....
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I didn't have any currants last year.  Not a skerrick!  This year, there are - but the wee birdies have yet to discover my stash!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We grow our currants and purple gooseberries here in a long raised bed and now surrounded by netting to keep out the chooks.   We have a seep hose running through the bed as recent years have had hot dry periods in April and May and that has affected cropping.

    That helps swell the fruits once they form but we also found last year that the netting round the side befuddles the smaller birds and they don't dive down into the middle to nick all our crop.   Hoping for more than just a couple of crumbles' worth this year.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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