Someone eating red currants

[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

[dr-solo]

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[Jim Elbrecht]

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]

[bronwest]

replying to roger, bronwest wrote: Oh boy! Same here. Red currant berries just disappeared. Nobody else could do that but chipmunks. Now I understand why my dog found a new resting spot in the yard very close to my 2 red currant bushes. Chipmunks completely cleaned my strawberry patch last summer so I just quit growing strawberries. I promise to put 100 traps around the yard if they start eating my cherries! Rats with stripes! But pretty! :)