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Hey up!
I'm not the gardener, I'm the grunt!
I do as told!!!
TBH the trees are high as heck, or were!! So we cut off the branches holding cherries which were obviously the high outer ones and left the rest of the tree alone. I ought to have taken before and after pics.
I'll tell W and jump back. But I don't think she'll care. As I mentioned above we have never been able to beat the birds to them and couldn't pick them at all as they were so high up, she is expecting them not to fruit next year, so we 'll see.
But the bi-annual thing is interesting. If this happens when would they crop? I can't imagine it being easy seeing as how they get quite a hard winter here. (My stars that sounds as if I know something about gardening, when I really don't!
Just looked up "Bi-annual cropping of cherry trees" and found that there is a difference between bi-annual which I took to mean twice a year and "bi-ennial" which means every two years.
Doh!
So I put this up, wot I found.
"Home gardeners can effectively thin cherry trees by hand if needed. During the spring, cherry trees may will start to drop or abort underripe fruit. This is a natural process that allows the tree to mature the remaining crop load. If not corrected through thinning, cherry trees may bear biennially (fruits only every other year) or bear heavily one year, then bear a comparatively light crop the next year. Thinning may seem counterproductive in theory, but it really is a benefit to your cherry harvest in the long run." (This from Stark Brothers a Merkin company.)
So it would appear that if we had been here to do it in the spring or the autumn we'd have been doing right. Doing it now may well mess things up. We'll just have to see!
Flip me "Gardener's question time from the Tarn!"
Ok lets go to the top & reword this your not the gardener your a....
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Gardeners son.
Ah ha gotch ya
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How can you SAY that!! I lurve it!!!!!
Especialy the way the frogs do it ina a kind of white dressing thing. always have to have some with any salad we have!
Like many salad items, it isn't what it is it's how you "use" it!!!
What else can you do with a lettuce
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ObviouslyIm no gentleman so I tell everything
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feed it to the rabbits?What else can you do with a lettuce
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(Shhh! don't say that! she already thought of that!)There’s always the easy option over jam.
Cherry brandy/ Gin/ vodka
J
It started off with "How do you make Kirsch?"
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Oh, never fear, we only have the unripened ones! The boyds got all the ripened ones.And you can use the un ripened one's for that win win or a country wine
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Round here they mostly get run overWe dont get rabbits here, but a mile away they are over run.
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Give it to your neighbour's wife, like I did yessdi. she could not get over the size of it. Plus some eggs of course, she gets them reglar at least once a week. She is very grateful now her husband can no longer do the biz. Although she never said no even before then.What else can you do with a lettuce
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Do you have a raptor or two hanging around? We do hence no bunnies neither round ere.We dont get rabbits here, but a mile away they are over run.
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We are talking salad stuff ---- ain't we???Give it to your neighbour's wife, like I did yessdi. she could not get over the size of it. Plus some eggs of course, she gets them reglar at least once a week. She is very grateful now her husband can no longer do the biz. Although she never said no even before then.
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Give it to your neighbour's wife, like I did yessdi. she could not get over the size of it. Plus some eggs of course, she gets them reglar at least once a week. She is very grateful now her husband can no longer do the biz. Although she never said no even before then.
So yer neebs husband cant raise his veg, why dont you give him a helping hand..
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Of course! Couldn't get it in the bag barely, mind you the eggs were underneath.We are talking salad stuff ---- ain't we???
(And yes all this is absolutely God's honest true. It is just how it is put and people's imaginations. Poor hubby has had an artificial hip so he finds he has trouble getting his leg over things he used to be able to easily. His double digging is completely out of the window, so now she has to use a machine. I could go on...!)
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Well as you can see we do, and once courgettes etc come on stream they get them too. She loves a nice courgette with a couple of tomatoes.
She is better off getting it free rather than having to go doon the toon and paying for it. And Wifey doesn't mind, she has far more than she needs.
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Skip man took it away?
Cherries are prone to virus infections that enter open wounds in winter and it kills them fast that's why you only prune in spring when the sap is rising did thay have any amber coloured resin on the trunk soft and gooey ?
Didn't really notice, they broke off because they were laden, right at the trunk and did make a bit of a mess. So it is highly possible it got some nastys in it.
J
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Good morning, I have an apple on one of my trees.
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