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[Martha Barrett / Scott Weber <bluestem_farm@juno.com>]

Maybe this is a silly suggestion, but is there any way to put something
(drop cloth, cafeteria trays, whatever) under the bushes to catch the
fruit, and then shake them?  I'm guessing that's how it's done on a large
scale--with machines, the same as raspberries.
Muffy
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 07:15:45 -0500 "Jim Fruth" writes:

>    How are Black Currants to be harvested?
>    My red currants all get ripe at the same time but my black 
>currants =
>ripen one-at-a-time.  They get ripe, then fall off and dry up.  I've =
>been picking them every second day for over a month and it has become 
>=
>such a time waster that I'm seriously thinking about grubbing them out 
>=
>and planting something else.
>    But then, the Canadians say that it is a farm crop so am I doing =
>something wrong?  How does anyone else harvest black currants (I have 
>=
>Ben Sarac, Ben Alder and Crandell).
>
>Jim Fruth
>

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