Cherries cheeries

[chelelev]

Before this year, we thought we only had one cherry tree in our yard, the one in the backyard.  I had gotten that tree trimmed last year and it barely produced one cherry.  I so enjoyed paying for the spraying of that tree last year.  I decided I wasn't going to spray it this year.  I missed telling them no for the first spray but had plans on telling them no more.

Then we discovered a cherry tree in the front yard.  This is the first year it produced anything and boy did it produce.  Some of the clusters look like grapes, there are so many.  It is small enough that we can get most of the cheeries off.  I had the spray people spray that tree instead of the 2nd spraying in the back.  No worms on either so the 3 sprays is a way of ripping people off for 66.00.

So far we have filled up 2 frozen margarita buckets and 3 5 gallon buckets and there are still more cherries to ripen.  We had terrible rain earlier this week and it ruined the cherry farmer's crop (rain makes the cherries split).  I had a few split cherries but the majority of them were fine.  

I pitted 4 cups today for cherry cobbler.  What a messy job that is, everything was covered in cherry juice including me.

Off to shower and go quilting.

Comments

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Wow!

My husband loves cherries, he'd love a tree in our yard, but they don't grow in NJ.

[chelelev.livejournal.com]

But you have really really good tomatoes and sweet corn, I'd trade in a heartbeat.

[hetterrific.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm... cherries. I just spent a fortune on cherries!

[chelelev.livejournal.com]

Right now it is supply and demand, the demand will probably outweigh the supply this year since the growers lost 50% of their crop (and usually don't harvest if they have lost 30%).

[maryjo.livejournal.com]

Oh they sound so yummy!

[chelelev.livejournal.com]

They were very yummy the first 5 days or so, now not so yummy.

[maryjo.livejournal.com]

When we went to Georgia I bought a case of peaches. I felt the same way about them as well...LoL

[dantc.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful! I've been waiting impatiently for the Raniers to appear at Pike Place.

[chelelev.livejournal.com]

They are coming. There was a kid selling them on the street corner this afternoon, like a lemonade stand but cherries. By the time I get done leaving all these cherries in unlocked cars or on the neighbors door step, people will run when they see us coming.