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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 12:20 pm Post subject:

Blue Peter wrote:

What colour were the cherries?

Believe me that's complete b*llux, last year all our cherries suffered equally; white, red, black, even morello (which Tiptree grow unprotected)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 1:21 pm Post subject:
here's the latest spreadsheet

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 1:42 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Blue Peter wrote:

What colour were the cherries?

Believe me that's complete b*llux, last year all our cherries suffered equally; white, red, black, even morello (which Tiptree grow unprotected)

Now I hesitate (very briefly

) to take issue with the DS Soft Fruit God, but last year I lost about half of my red cherries to birds, but had practically no losses from the white ones. Purely anecdotal, I am sure, but my blackbirds really weren't interested in the Merton Glory.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 1:51 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

my blackbirds really weren't interested in the Merton Glory.

Maybe they respect the heritage of the John Innes institute or the fact that it's one of the last "London" cherries too much to mess with them?

Our birds (of any colour) have no respect, not for nuffink!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34418
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 1:57 pm Post subject:
Colour blind local population?

Blue Peter

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

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 1:57 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Our birds (of any colour) have no respect, not for nuffink!

Yeah, but you know what Essex birds are like, innit?

Peter.

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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 2:00 pm Post subject:

Blue Peter wrote:

Yeah, but you know what Essex birds are like, innit?

Don't diss em, or I is likely to get upset

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 2:08 pm Post subject:
Obviously soft southern cherries.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 2:10 pm Post subject:
Cherries, like plums, need a certain degree of softness to be worthwhile.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 2:11 pm Post subject:
They also need a certain degree of availability for eating!!!!

Blue Peter

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

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 2:12 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Blue Peter wrote:

Yeah, but you know what Essex birds are like, innit?

Don't diss em, or I is likely to get upset

R'spec, bro!

Peter.

onemanband

Joined: 26 Dec 2010
Posts: 1473
Location: NCA90

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 10:43 pm Post subject:

Here's my cherries on my unnetted tree.

I've allready posted a picture of my bird deterent on photo comp post. I don't loose any cherries to birds.
Tree is a Stella I got from Homebase 13 years ago.
Some cherries are edibal now but will be best in a few weeks when they will be bigger and purply/black in colour.
Not kept records but crop can be measured in bucket fulls - 4 maybe 5 - tree is only 10 foot tall but bushy.
Best thing I ever planted.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24581
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 11 6:55 am Post subject:
I want to eat those now.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 11 10:23 am Post subject:
That's fabulous, none of mine are like that yet (4 yrs)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44721
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 11 12:24 pm Post subject:
Today's harvest data entry will be ridiculous, spent time with builders, then looking at non working sprayer before going to work, got into work and spent 2 hrs discussing ongoing support issues with one of our IT companies. What do I remember now???

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