Someone steals the Gooseberries.

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We made some great efforts to grow this gooseberry bush.
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A happy Friday to all. Look how beautiful are our new gooseberries in the morning sun.

Gooseberries are very tasty and I am dreaming of gooseberry jelly and gooseberry pie. Or how's about gooseberry cake or gooseberry tart.
Stuff to really drool about.
But there's a problem, as we have a thief in the garden.

Here's the incriminating evidence that Marian laid out before my crying eyes.
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A closer look made me sob even more loudly, as that little round shell at the back is the remains of my gooseberry.
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Look at this lovely bush and sheer evidence of my hard work. My mom used to say that I could even make plastic straws to grow.
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So, I had my suspicions and do you think that is a guilty look ?.
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"Who me"? "I know what you think as I have seen you fiddling there with the evidence, but oh no, not me. Look how innocent I am"
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So I have to be fair as the judge, as it could perhaps be the terrible twins.
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They did seem a bit guilty as the one even came to kiss my shoe here.
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So now a plan has to be made or else none of my delicious dreams will come true.
I challenge you here to think and to tell me what my resolution would be.

How would I effectively keep a thief away from my gooseberry bush?
I bet that my simple resolution will be a great laugh for you.
Note that I will post my resolution in part 2 later today. (If we have power that is)

And That's All Friends!

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

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Gooseberries seem to be a rather fickle plant, but I personally have no experience growing them (wrong climate). However I do have experience with thieves and can wholeheartedly say I hate them!

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Oh yes, the climate is very important for the growth of gooseberries.
These little animals (squirrels) that "steal" the gooseberries are not really thieves and we love them.

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I am intrigued as to your solution
I am not as big a fan of gooseberry as you clearly are but something ransacking what you grow is truly frustrating

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The solution was posted JJ. Just having fun to get a laugh.
I know who the "thieves" are and we will really not harm them. But watching them I will defintely do.

Sorry, I have sent messages to both Beer and Pizza to tell them that their tokens are stuck in my wallet on 0. So they don't show any incoming tokens.

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I saw it I knew fir sure that the follow up would not involve any harm to anything

It was a fun series

Let’s see if they work for me

!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
!invest_vote

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Hahaha, you are right mate and it was indeed fun to do that short series.

I would be very interested to see how it worked out for you, as you are very similar to me.

Now I will only give your reply an upvote, as I hate to give people worthless things.
I am having trouble with my Beer and Pizza votes. Trying to sort it out though and @kittygirl is helping me.

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If that were in my garden I would look no further than the BuckarooBabies!!

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Hahaha, yes indeed, now you have let the dog out of the house, or is it the bird out of the nest, or maybe the cat out of the bag?
You and I know excactly who it is.

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Might be squirrels since they are always around, out and about early mornings perhaps it is the Robins or other bird in the neighbourhood, do tell!

!LUV for Friday, squirry gets too many nuts from Marian....!

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Hahaha, like I just said to a previous comment, I know exactly who it is Lady Joan and when I catch it red handed on my camera, I will show everyone who it is.

!LUV also to you guys for the weekend.

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Take it at a guess it is the birds will go see when you find the culprit, once addicted they always return....

!LUV

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We are thinking to cover the entire bush with shade netting, staked into the ground to also keep the squirrels out. It will not be 100% proof, but it might minimize the losses.

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Build a tent it should work hopefully, squirrels will clamber under possibly depending how the netting is laid.

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Oh yes, I have thought about the digging under and have a good system planned.
Last year the bugs attacked the leaves of my young avo tree and I have also sorted them out.

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Squirrels will chew through netting lickity split.

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Shade cloth tent structure may work, give it a go time will tell 😁

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Too solid and it will keep the light out. I am going to try chicken wire or bird cage wire, so let's see if it works.

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Hardware shops sell off the roll, a plastic type of chicken wire which we used on our doors over trelli gates, secured down with cable ties to expand out when opening to keep monkeys at bay. Plastic used due to rust, coastal cancer.....

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We can't use plastic because the squirrels will simply chew through it. It's got to be wire and they also sell it in roles.
Luckily we don't have a big rusting problem here, but down at the coast they may have. I have not looked into it yet.

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Make a cage for the plants out of chicken wire so they are enclosed completely. Chicken wire is fairly cheap and some scrap wood to stake it and boom - berries behind bars. The other solution I have is a bit less squirrel-friendly. (don't know much about gooseberries but squirrels are rather tasty.)

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Ha! Your first option is great and the second one we will abstain from.
I have forgotten about the use of chicken wire and know exactly where I will get a roll.

Cheers and !BEER

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