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I watered the fruit cage then inspected the contents. Lots falling off cause of the heat and dryness, gooseberries, currants and cherries. Also, something is eating the unripe cherries (suspect snails). I have some brassicas planted in there to thwart the pigeons. Lots of other things thing seem to like them, especially the caulis. The slugs started off on them so I did some evening raids. Then I noticed that whole leaves were going missing (rats I suspect) again a marked preference for caulis. Then some started to wilt, cabbage fly no doubt though some had been pulled out by the rats. Hopefully I'll end up with a few for the kitchen but doubt there will be a cauli among them. the rasperries had lots of flowers and I'm hoping, with a bit of watering, I'll get a decent crop of those. I also weeded the autumn onions and the broad beans, no blackfly yet, should nip out the tops as a precaution now.