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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Off-season woes

Be glad you don't live in England.  Some of the birds there, like bullfinches, love to eat fruit buds of all sorts of fruit trees and bushes, currants included.
> The only thing that looks really healthy this fall is the currants.  
> They're dormant, of course, but they are covered with fat buds and have 
> a healthy look about them.  I gotta say that I've found currants 
> consistently rewarding to grow - the only real problem I've had yet is 
> birds taking the crop.
>
> Cheers,
> Ginda