[growth] dither dither dither

This year's infrastructure project, Finishing The Raised Beds aside, was pencilled in as A Fruit Cage. The idea being that I am potentially interested in eating (and turning into sorbet and jam and cake and...) the various Ribes that preexisted on the plot, being as best I can tell redcurrants, jostaberries, and a red dessert gooseberry. However, frustratingly but predictably, if they're not netted in they (and the cherries) get to almost-ripe-enough-to-eat and then Mysteriously Vanish, in a fashion that definitely has nothing to do with the local population of parakeets.

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