On 26/06/2013 23:58, Bob Hobden wrote:
When do you pick yours? I ask as I notice one of our allotment holders
has picked most of theirs already before they are even fully grown let
alone ripe and sweet. Why would they do that?

To annoy the birds?

I didn't get *any* fruit set on my gooseberries this year. There were no
flying insects about when they flowered and they suffered frost damage
into the bargain. Lots of new strong shoots but no fruit at all!

Shame as one of them is a dark red sweet desert gooseberry almost edible
raw (and delicious when stewed with minimal sugar).

Currants and josta berries both have a crop so it must have just been
very bad timing that the gooseberries failed so completely.

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Regards,
Martin Brown