What could be better than arriving home after a long stifling day in London to a bowl of sweet, juicy cherries? We harvested these from the cherry tree hanging into our garden, climbing among the branches to pick the fruit. This was fun, but if you want to grow cherries seriously for fruit, you should train them as a fan so you can net them to protect against the birds harvesting them before you.
on Jun 30th, 2009 at 11:08 am
“We harvested these” … we called it scrumping in my day :-0))
It’s been a bumper harvest here in France too.
on Jan 11th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
[...] plentiful. As long as the frosts hold off when the blossoms open, we’ll be eating plenty of fat, juicy red cherries in a few months’ [...]