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Currant events
Aug. 13th, 2020 21:59Holy moly -- there's currants in them thar hills!
After going up on the south side of the Annex under the apple trees, to pick loganberries (a venture I would have discouraged if I'd known in advance), Jenny informed me that there are some red currant shoots among all the grass and weeds. I went up to look, and she's right! I had thought they had died out years ago. Apparently the once-robust bushes went thin about twenty years ago, and from the look of things, they've been puttering along with a loose network of surface stems all over that slope. I unearthed a half-dozen canes pushed down by the grass, but nothing as coherent as a "bush".
( Ribes, gates, bugs, rocks, and possibly a break )
After going up on the south side of the Annex under the apple trees, to pick loganberries (a venture I would have discouraged if I'd known in advance), Jenny informed me that there are some red currant shoots among all the grass and weeds. I went up to look, and she's right! I had thought they had died out years ago. Apparently the once-robust bushes went thin about twenty years ago, and from the look of things, they've been puttering along with a loose network of surface stems all over that slope. I unearthed a half-dozen canes pushed down by the grass, but nothing as coherent as a "bush".
( Ribes, gates, bugs, rocks, and possibly a break )