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Baz[_3_] · 25-08-2012, 12:03 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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I seem to have missed most of the picking season for blackcurrants.
They are all dried up on the bushes. :-(
Is there any reason not to harvest them in this state and then dry
them a bit more and eat them as dried fruit?

No, except the effort and the fact that they may not be nice.
I would have a go and see - they might still have flavour.

My one drops the ripe berries, so yours (or mine) have IMO some sort of
disease or pest, and I wouldn't risk it yet.

If you can catch any disease from your blackcurrants, you are much
stranger than I thought! None of that family produce much in the
way of toxins, so that won't be a problem, either.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Hmmm. Strange! I did not say that a person can catch a disease, I said that
the berries could have a disease. I thought that was clear enough, not so,
sorry about that.

Baz