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Harvesting gooseberries
My two green gooseberry bushes are laden with full size gooseberries.
They are also carefully netted so that the birds - otherwise most welcome in the garden - don't get any. However, I have tried a couple of the more golden looking ones, and I find them still extremely tart, and not the texture I would expect - hence not ripe yet. When can I expect to harvest gooseberries, and am I naive to expect they might get *just a little* sweeter??? While I'm on the gooseberry subject. I had last year my first infestation of the caterpillars of the gooseberry fly - can't remember its precise name, but the grubs are about 2cm long, green with black head and legs. At the time, I got rid of it by spraying an organic insecticide - which did the trick. This year, by the time I spotted them, they had got onto the redcurrant bush. Out of insecticide, I used the hose to spray the branches with water at relatively high pressure (though not that high that it would damage the leaves) - which knocked most of the caterpillars off, and apparently stopped - or at least slowed down - the systematic stripping by the little beggars. Any idea whether this is effective long term, or can I expect them to survive the (relatively) high pressure shower and come back for more? Cat(h) |
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