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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44714
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 11 9:04 am Post subject: Progress report cherries
Well, we finally have a harvest. The new netting got decimated by rabbits, badgers and muntjac so we had to add electric at the bottom. Despite this there have still been incursions and a limited amount of damage, although we haven't seen any birds in there. I didn't realise our white cherries would be so early but this is how it's looking so far:

Ginkotree

Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Posts: 2956
Location: south west wales

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 11 11:30 am Post subject:
Watching the ones on our tree, but so are the birds....and the sheep seemed to try and have a munch but put a stop to that straight away, theyre Mine.x

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44714
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 10:02 am Post subject:
I think Merton Glory, Rainier and Vega are all well worth growing, especially as they ripen so early. I think they'll be all done by the weekend.

mochyn

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

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 10:15 am Post subject: Re: Progress report cherries

tahir wrote:

The new netting got decimated by rabbits, badgers and muntjac so we had to add electric at the bottom.

And we were worried about the birds!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44714
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 10:28 am Post subject:
They were letting the birds in, we had quite a lot of damage before we got it sorted

cassy

Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Posts: 1047
Location: South West Scotland

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 10:42 am Post subject:
I've been meaning to say for a while how much I'm enjoying reading your Progress Reports, even though many of the fruit and nuts will not be suitable for where we are. Ta!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44714
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 10:45 am Post subject:
Why thank you

Blue Peter

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

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 11:11 am Post subject:

cassy wrote:

I've been meaning to say for a while how much I'm enjoying reading your Progress Reports, even though many of the fruit and nuts will not be suitable for where we are.

Ta!

Me too. So, for the sake of completeness, why do Merton Glory and Rainier go from 'fully ripe' on the 5th to just 'ripe' on the 7th? A change of coding scheme?

Peter.

Blue Peter

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

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 11:15 am Post subject:
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) Peter.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15387
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 11:48 am Post subject:
Almost overnight we've gone from a tree fully laden to a tree pretty much bare. Where is that recipe for blackbird pie...

Blue Peter

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

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 11:59 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Almost overnight we've gone from a tree fully laden to a tree pretty much bare.
Where is that recipe for blackbird pie...

What colour were the cherries?

Peter.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 12:03 pm Post subject:
My Merton Glory cherries are still little hard, green bullets. Loads of 'em on the tree, mind you.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44714
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 12:07 pm Post subject:

Blue Peter wrote:

Me too. So, for the sake of completeness, why do Merton Glory and Rainier go from 'fully ripe' on the 5th to just 'ripe' on the 7th? A change of coding scheme?

No idea! I go out at 06:00, come in, have breakfast, go to work, get to my desk around 10:00 and try to remember what I harvested and how it was.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44714
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 11 12:13 pm 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)

As Judith illustrates there's a huge difference depending on location, we had bright sun all spring, so I guess we must be 2 weeks in advance of a normal season anyway.

There's a general trend towards earlier flowering (there was a paper on it last year) due to climate change, and as I've said previously Martin doesn't generate data he compiles it (except in a few limited areas like sweet chestnut and forest garden crops), so if the source data was wrong it'll carry on being wrong.

Blue Peter

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

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

tahir wrote:

No idea! I go out at 06:00, come in, have breakfast, go to work, get to my desk around 10:00 and try to remember what I harvested and how it was.

Yeah, well, some of us hang on yer every word, mate. So sort your act out, eh?

Peter.

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