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Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: Lesley Silvester on March 30, 2012, 11:30:16 pm

Title: cherries
Post by: Lesley Silvester on March 30, 2012, 11:30:16 pm

My cherry tree has never done well due, mostly to the goats reaching over the fence to have a chomp whenever they get the chance.  Managed to prevent them last year and I had one cherry.  and a delicious cvherry it was too.  Today I noticed quite a lot of blosson so am hoping.

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Post by: Mammyshaz on March 30, 2012, 11:45:19 pm

Fingers crossed, cherries a plenty come summer  :thumbsup:

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Post by: little blue on March 31, 2012, 12:01:20 pm

same here, fingers crossed for both of us!

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Post by: Sandy on March 31, 2012, 12:17:02 pm

Cherries are sooo expensive in the shops too...we have a cherry / plumb, tends to have a lot of fruit but in places I cannot reach!!  Hope you get at least another one this year!!

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Post by: deepinthewoods on March 31, 2012, 12:31:27 pm

you could try feeding it with  high potash fertiliser, like wood ashes, that m ight help it set a few more.
at least if you do get 2 this year you can say youve doubled your crop!

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Post by: Fleecewife on March 31, 2012, 01:20:51 pm

Quote from: deepinthewoods on March 31, 2012, 12:31:27 pm

you could try feeding it with  high potash fertiliser, like wood ashes, that m ight help it set a few more.
at least if you do get 2 this year you can say youve doubled your crop!

 ;D ;D

The birds get ours every year, usually in the morning of the very day we have hoped they'd be ripe.....

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Post by: Lesley Silvester on March 31, 2012, 11:46:51 pm

I'll try that DITW.  Maybe I'll even quadruple the crop.   :cherry: :cherry: :cherry: :cherry:  Wonder if I should invest in a net.  the tree is right next to the bird feeder.