And high up in the trees are...
And we could just see Arran. Today we have had gusty winds again...we had planned a bike ride, but wind and showers again wrote that off.
After our walk I started harvesting gooseberries, black and red currants and Alpine strawberries... Without netting the birds would have already cleared the lot!!
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A nice start to harvesting.
Summer fruit to come.
Birds don't miss a trick where berries are concerned. One day they areripe - the next day gone!
We are gently (grrrr) competing with the birds but we don't net, we use a variety of 'scary things' which on the whole do the trick. The blackbirds are friendly enough to know we don't mean to be horrible so ignore all measures of 'anti-bird - cheeky beggers!! haha
Hawthorne I would love to be able to not net.. however before I did, I lost the lot...
I would like to know which birds eat gooseberry sawfly caterpillars though..if it is blue tits, sadly they don't frequent our garden.
you're gonna be busy canning and pickling fruit come Autumn but I cant think of anything nicer.
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