Do the fruit cage hokey cokey

Having a 25' square fruit cage is a real boon. However if half of the stuff inside it are not bothered by birds and a load of stuff outside is, then its time to do some serious rearranging.

Inside the cage, 10 blueberries and over a dozen cranberries were lifted and outside some 8 gooseberry bushes had the same treatment. Their positions were pretty much "swapped" as my blueberries are never bothered by birds but the gooseberries, unless netted were pillaged by them.

The gooseberries were planted in good sized holes and given a good helping of allotment compost before being well firmed in. The blueberries were a bit more involved in that they had half a bag of ericaceous compost put in the planting hole before they went in. To keep the blueberries nicely "acid" I will give them a good water with sulphate of iron in the spring and again 2-3 times during the season as our soil is naturally only just acid.

This year, hopefully I will get lots of gooseberries at the expense of the birds.