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jamanda
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'd like a cherry tree. We have a cooking apple tree which only fruits every few years, and neither Sean nor Boy W like cooked apples, so I keep thinking about grubbing it up and putting in something more sensible.

tahir



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Get rid of it and put in several cherries on G5 (dwarfing root stock), I'd go with Merton Glory for definite, choose others that'll pollinate it.

jamanda
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Get rid of it and put in several cherries on G5 (dwarfing root stock), I'd go with Merton Glory for definite, choose others that'll pollinate it.


Several? Tahir, we only have a titchy garden

jamanda
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

So it no good to just get one cherry tree?

tahir



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

In my old garden 50' x 50' I had about 12 fruit trees as well as a veg patch, greenhouse and play area.

If you've got a bit of fence you can put minarettes at 3-4 ft spacings along it

look at www.kenmuir.co.uk

tahir



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
So it no good to just get one cherry tree?


There are some self fertile varieties but ALL will do better with a pollinator, but why have 1 when you can have loads?

lottie



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
I'd like a cherry tree. We have a cooking apple tree which only fruits every few years, and neither Sean nor Boy W like cooked apples, so I keep thinking about grubbing it up and putting in something more sensible.

Do they like plums/damsons/pears?---all come self fertile, crop heavier than cherries and the birds let you get some without netting them It's o.k. for Tahir growing so many he'll be able to share with the thrushes

tahir



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The beauty of minarettes against a fence is that you can protect them quite easily, we netted ours. I'd agree that home grown plums are so vastly superior to shop bought that you should definitely try some.

lottie



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My new ones are dwarfed enough to net---hopefully I'll finally get some to eat

tahir



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 08 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Next Sunday's Food Programme:

Radio 4 Sunday 12:32 The Food Programme
Cherries: Cherry orchards have been disappearing at an alarming rate over the past 50 years, but has the tide finally turned? Sheila Dillon investigates.

Andrea



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 08 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

marigold wrote:
Members in East Sussex and nearby might like to rent a cherry tree.



How on earth can they find enough to talk about to fill six newsletters each year?

cab



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 08 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Very kind, I'll send it registered post tomorrow.

Back to the subject in hand I'm trialling 20+ varieties of cherry including 12 different white varieties, if any do well I'll be telling people all about them


White cherries are, in my view, the way forward. They seem so much less prone to birds picking them clean (meaning that I could go and harvest a rucksack full from some wildlings yesterday).

cab



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 08 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
So it no good to just get one cherry tree?


Have a peek around your neighbourhood, bound to be some other cherries to cross pollinate with.

'Stellar' is a nice self fertile one, if you can't find any other cherries and don't have room to plant a couple. Rather tasty fruit with a good texture.

jamanda
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 08 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There are a few others around within a few hundred yards. Not good eaters though.

cab



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 08 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
There are a few others around within a few hundred yards. Not good eaters though.


Probably fine as pollinators. It'll also come down to whether they're flowering at the same time.

Tahir, you still reading this? Do cherries have any funny business going on with pollinating groups, like apples do?

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