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I have just found this NG after a friend told me about it. I have a query about blackcurrant & gooseberry bushes and a plum tree!!! I do not know much about fruit trees and need help I have a 15ft x 6ft piece of garden that has got a few buddleas and other plants but at the top I have a plum tree (3 years old) 2 gooseberry bushes (also 3 years old) and a blackcurrant bush (2 years old) They are next to about 10 rasberry bushes (4 years old). Last summer only the raspberries had any fruit on them. The other 3 grew but did not have a single fruit on them after the previous years were great. Any ides what happened? The gooseberry bushes seemed to have been eaten. Is there certain insects that eat just fruit bushes Any help appreciated Gillian ----------------------------------------- Villa with private heated pool in Orlando Florida 10 min's from Disney. Sleeps 8. Good rates. http://www.floridavillawithpool.co.uk |
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from "Gillian T" contains these words: Hi I have just found this NG after a friend told me about it. I have a query about blackcurrant & gooseberry bushes and a plum tree!!! I do not know much about fruit trees and need help I have a 15ft x 6ft piece of garden that has got a few buddleas and other plants but at the top I have a plum tree (3 years old) 2 gooseberry bushes (also 3 years old) and a blackcurrant bush (2 years old) They are next to about 10 rasberry bushes (4 years old). Last summer only the raspberries had any fruit on them. The other 3 grew but did not have a single fruit on them after the previous years were great. Any ides what happened? Hi Gill, welcome to urg. There's a weekly post here called abcfor newcomers which will introduce you to how the group works, please take a look so that you can find out how to present questions in the way that's most likely to result in helpful answers. That's a small area for so many fruit bushes plus buddliea and a plum, it must be getting quite shady. Some plants (like gooseberry and blackcurrant) need lots of light and circulating air, first to make flower buds and flower well, then to get the flowers fertilised by insects or wind, and then to ripen the fruit. I would guess that as the plants got bigger, the plum ,gooseberries and blackcurrants became too shaded/crowded to either flower or get fertilised or set fruit. (Raspberries can survive on much less light than the first three). Something has to go. Or, you need an allotment :-) The gooseberry bushes seemed to have been eaten. Is there certain insects that eat just fruit bushes If just the leaves disappeared, that sounds like gooseberry sawfly; but gsf isn't the cause of no gooseberries. If your gooseberries were in an open sunny airy situation they could be almost defoliated by sawfly and still flower and fruit. There are lots of insects that feed on fruit bushes; but you don't necessarily want to keep all insects away from your mini fruit farm..many of them are beneficial, in that they move pollen around and fertilise the flowers that make the fruit. Janet. |
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from "Gillian T" contains these words: Hi I have just found this NG after a friend told me about it. I have a query about blackcurrant & gooseberry bushes and a plum tree!!! I do not know much about fruit trees and need help I have a 15ft x 6ft piece of garden that has got a few buddleas and other plants but at the top I have a plum tree (3 years old) 2 gooseberry bushes (also 3 years old) and a blackcurrant bush (2 years old) They are next to about 10 rasberry bushes (4 years old). Last summer only the raspberries had any fruit on them. The other 3 grew but did not have a single fruit on them after the previous years were great. Any ides what happened? Hi Gill, welcome to urg. There's a weekly post here called abcfor newcomers which will introduce you to how the group works, please take a look so that you can find out how to present questions in the way that's most likely to result in helpful answers. That's a small area for so many fruit bushes plus buddliea and a plum, it must be getting quite shady. Some plants (like gooseberry and blackcurrant) need lots of light and circulating air, first to make flower buds and flower well, then to get the flowers fertilised by insects or wind, and then to ripen the fruit. I would guess that as the plants got bigger, the plum ,gooseberries and blackcurrants became too shaded/crowded to either flower or get fertilised or set fruit. (Raspberries can survive on much less light than the first three). Something has to go. Or, you need an allotment :-) The gooseberry bushes seemed to have been eaten. Is there certain insects that eat just fruit bushes If just the leaves disappeared, that sounds like gooseberry sawfly; but gsf isn't the cause of no gooseberries. If your gooseberries were in an open sunny airy situation they could be almost defoliated by sawfly and still flower and fruit. There are lots of insects that feed on fruit bushes; but you don't necessarily want to keep all insects away from your mini fruit farm..many of them are beneficial, in that they move pollen around and fertilise the flowers that make the fruit. Janet. |
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from "Gillian T" contains these words: Hi I have just found this NG after a friend told me about it. I have a query about blackcurrant & gooseberry bushes and a plum tree!!! I do not know much about fruit trees and need help I have a 15ft x 6ft piece of garden that has got a few buddleas and other plants but at the top I have a plum tree (3 years old) 2 gooseberry bushes (also 3 years old) and a blackcurrant bush (2 years old) They are next to about 10 rasberry bushes (4 years old). Last summer only the raspberries had any fruit on them. The other 3 grew but did not have a single fruit on them after the previous years were great. Any ides what happened? Hi Gill, welcome to urg. There's a weekly post here called abcfor newcomers which will introduce you to how the group works, please take a look so that you can find out how to present questions in the way that's most likely to result in helpful answers. That's a small area for so many fruit bushes plus buddliea and a plum, it must be getting quite shady. Some plants (like gooseberry and blackcurrant) need lots of light and circulating air, first to make flower buds and flower well, then to get the flowers fertilised by insects or wind, and then to ripen the fruit. I would guess that as the plants got bigger, the plum ,gooseberries and blackcurrants became too shaded/crowded to either flower or get fertilised or set fruit. (Raspberries can survive on much less light than the first three). Something has to go. Or, you need an allotment :-) The gooseberry bushes seemed to have been eaten. Is there certain insects that eat just fruit bushes If just the leaves disappeared, that sounds like gooseberry sawfly; but gsf isn't the cause of no gooseberries. If your gooseberries were in an open sunny airy situation they could be almost defoliated by sawfly and still flower and fruit. There are lots of insects that feed on fruit bushes; but you don't necessarily want to keep all insects away from your mini fruit farm..many of them are beneficial, in that they move pollen around and fertilise the flowers that make the fruit. Janet. |
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from "Gillian T" contains these words: Hi I have just found this NG after a friend told me about it. I have a query about blackcurrant & gooseberry bushes and a plum tree!!! I do not know much about fruit trees and need help I have a 15ft x 6ft piece of garden that has got a few buddleas and other plants but at the top I have a plum tree (3 years old) 2 gooseberry bushes (also 3 years old) and a blackcurrant bush (2 years old) They are next to about 10 rasberry bushes (4 years old). Last summer only the raspberries had any fruit on them. The other 3 grew but did not have a single fruit on them after the previous years were great. Any ides what happened? Hi Gill, welcome to urg. There's a weekly post here called abcfor newcomers which will introduce you to how the group works, please take a look so that you can find out how to present questions in the way that's most likely to result in helpful answers. That's a small area for so many fruit bushes plus buddliea and a plum, it must be getting quite shady. Some plants (like gooseberry and blackcurrant) need lots of light and circulating air, first to make flower buds and flower well, then to get the flowers fertilised by insects or wind, and then to ripen the fruit. I would guess that as the plants got bigger, the plum ,gooseberries and blackcurrants became too shaded/crowded to either flower or get fertilised or set fruit. (Raspberries can survive on much less light than the first three). Something has to go. Or, you need an allotment :-) The gooseberry bushes seemed to have been eaten. Is there certain insects that eat just fruit bushes If just the leaves disappeared, that sounds like gooseberry sawfly; but gsf isn't the cause of no gooseberries. If your gooseberries were in an open sunny airy situation they could be almost defoliated by sawfly and still flower and fruit. There are lots of insects that feed on fruit bushes; but you don't necessarily want to keep all insects away from your mini fruit farm..many of them are beneficial, in that they move pollen around and fertilise the flowers that make the fruit. Janet. |
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thanks for replying Janet
I will keep an eye out for the weekly abcfor newcomers and phrase my queries a bit better. I'm off to the Garden Centre to get some compost now as I think this may help with some of my fruit probs thanks once again Gillian http://www.floridavillawithpool.co.uk |
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from "Gillian T" contains these words: thanks for replying Janet I will keep an eye out for the weekly abcfor newcomers and phrase my queries a bit better. I didn't mean there was anything wrong with the phrasing..abc post explains all but basically a better result is likely if the header (title) relates to the question in the post. People who are interested in that topic and can help, are then more likely to read the post. Janet |
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from "Gillian T" contains these words: thanks for replying Janet I will keep an eye out for the weekly abcfor newcomers and phrase my queries a bit better. I didn't mean there was anything wrong with the phrasing..abc post explains all but basically a better result is likely if the header (title) relates to the question in the post. People who are interested in that topic and can help, are then more likely to read the post. Janet |
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