Progress report cherries

Latest Articles

Progress report cherries
Page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Next

Downsizer Forum Index -> Grow Your Own

Author

Message

Blue Peter

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 2400
Location: Milton Keynes

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 11 10:58 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

We've been harvesting Summer Sun for a few days now, lovely tasty huge cherries but ALL split. The local farm shop sells these but they spray them against splitting

What do they spray them with? glue?

Peter.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 11 11:26 am Post subject:
Something called Pretect it contains amino acids which increase the elasticity of the skin apparently

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 11 9:26 am Post subject:
Started picking Morellos today, not sure what to do with them.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 7148
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 11 9:29 am Post subject:

Vanessa wrote:

A cherries-and-birds tip from our rural French neighbours. Cut the bottom off a plastic bottle, attach some cord so the bottle can be suspended upside down in the tree, fairly high-up. Leave the lid off (which is now the bottom of the contraption) for drainage. 1/3-fill with moth-balls.

It's meant to keep the birds off, especially the middle-sized to large ones..........

Might be coincidence, but worth a try for those who can't net their trees?

if it is upside-down, how do the mothball stay in?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 11 9:30 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Started picking Morellos today, not sure what to do with them.

Freeze as pie filling or make Eton mess. Lots of it.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 11 9:35 am Post subject:

Blue Peter wrote:

P.S. According to Martin Crawford, Vega is supposed to ripen at the end of July:

https://www.agroforestry.co.uk/Catalogue201011.pdf (p. 11)

According to this (based on Martin's data):

https://cherries.orangepippin.com/cherries/yellow-spanish

Yellow Spanish is a late cherry with a sweet rich flavour. It's certainly not late here, nor does it have a sweet rich flavour, it's just OK.

So treat with caution all cultivar notes. This is why I've always wanted a wikified db of fruit varieties where users can have their own data added to the recorded data.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 11 9:38 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

So treat with caution all cultivar notes. This is why I've always wanted a wikified db of fruit varieties where users can have their own data added to the recorded data.

Agreed.
My Summer Sun is the least interesting of my cherries flavour-wise. Although it definitely does split.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 11 10:28 am Post subject:

gz wrote:

Vanessa wrote:

if it is upside-down, how do the mothball stay in?

The cut-off bottom becomes the "top" of the moth-ball-holder. The lid, taken off, lets any water drain out so you don't end up with moth-ball soup! This is pop-bottle-size necks, not milk-carton sized.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 10:11 am Post subject:
Looking at the books we appear to be around 4 weeks earlier on all our cherries

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 7148
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 10:21 am Post subject:
Fruit seems to be earlier, but not sweeter...could be a lack of sun at the right time isn't developing the sugars in the fruit? My Morello is hardly colouring yet...but we're two weeks later than three miles down the valley, let alone how far behind you we are

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 10:29 am Post subject:
Definitely need sun for sweetness and flavour, but we're getting a bit between the rain here

gray_b

Joined: 24 Jun 2011
Posts: 243
Location: Leafy Shires of the Midlands

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 5:01 pm Post subject:
Hi Ya all - My cherries ripening dates 2011, all grown in open field. Burlat rippened 2nd June Stella - still 2 weeks to go Vann - still ripening Morello - still ripening Montgomery - all disappeared Donnisons - all disappeared

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 5:08 pm Post subject:
Wotcha Graeme, Burlat would have been in May here then!!! Is it any good?

gray_b

Joined: 24 Jun 2011
Posts: 243
Location: Leafy Shires of the Midlands

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 5:25 pm Post subject:
Considering its one of the first real fresh fruit of the season, its not bad. But it does not compare to those varieties ripening now. I think the only reason I had any is that they ripen so early, it fooled the blackbirds.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 11 5:35 pm Post subject:
It's our first harvest this year, finally got them netted

	Downsizer Forum Index -> Grow Your Own	All times are GMT Page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Next
Page 4 of 7

View Latest Posts