#1: Someone eating red currants
Posted on 2006-06-19 16:37:07 by Roger
I completely covered all my red currand bushes with deer netting and
put rocks on the ground to keep the nets tight. Still, someone has
managed to eat away at 90% of the berries when they just starting to
ripen. I'm suspecting chipmunks, but can't figure out how they could
reach berries 5ft high from the ground. has anyone had this problem?
Thanks
Roger
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#2: Re: Someone eating red currants
Posted on 2006-06-20 15:14:30 by dr-solo
birds, not chippies
"roger" <coretech007@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I completely covered all my red currand bushes with deer netting and
>put rocks on the ground to keep the nets tight. Still, someone has
>managed to eat away at 90% of the berries when they just starting to
>ripen. I'm suspecting chipmunks, but can't figure out how they could
>reach berries 5ft high from the ground. has anyone had this problem?
>
>Thanks
>Roger
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#3: Re: Someone eating red currants
Posted on 2006-06-23 18:04:40 by Jim Elbrecht
"roger" <coretech007@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I completely covered all my red currand bushes with deer netting and
>put rocks on the ground to keep the nets tight. Still, someone has
>managed to eat away at 90% of the berries when they just starting to
>ripen. I'm suspecting chipmunks, but can't figure out how they could
>reach berries 5ft high from the ground. has anyone had this problem?
Chipmunks are good climbers when it suits them-- but I have a bumper
crop of chippies and they get into everything else [pepper plants,
squash, cucumber plants especially this year] but have never bothered
my currants.
I've never had anything eat mine. Let us know when you discover the
culprit.
Jim
[for that matter- do you have a favorite recipe for them? I still
have a couple quarts from last year and mine should be ripening in a
week or two. I haven't made jelly for a while- but usually use mine
in muffins- or eat them fresh]
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