Last year our currants and gooseberries produced a reasonable amount of fruit, but we got to eat almost none of it: the deer and the birds ate almost everything as soon as it approached being ripe.
So, this year we have repurposed a fruit cage that I actually bought as a possible “bird flu winter home” for the chickens and turned out to be useless for that purpose. So the fruit cage is now installed over the top of the currant and gooseberry plants and we’ll see how that goes. The blackcurrants are already smelling wonderful even though the fruit are still green.
Also today I finally got around to planting out various brassicas — cabbages, romanesco cauliflowers and calabrese. They also need to be under nets to keep the pests off, but I ran out of time for that today.