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25-08-2012, 10:52 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

wrote:
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.

I tried a nibble of some, which tasted ok - a bit sour for dried fruit,
but I kind of liked that! I've had dried blackcurrants before in my
Graze boxes, although I always thought that 'currants' were, y'know,
dried blackcurrants ...

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.

(noting it wasn't me that suggested any kind of toxins, but ...)
I think mostly I was wondering if they were likely to have had some kind
of wee beastie laid in them. I don't fancy food which wriggles.