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How to get worm free sour cherries without ever spraying
About 5 years ago I started to harvest the sour cherries from this
particular old tree. I myself started about 15 of my own sour cherry trees but they just do not produce like this old one. Seems as though an old fruit tree is always better than these young ones. But anyway, when I started to harvest about every 8 out of 10 cherries had a worm inside. Since I am an organic grower, I thought I might try a method to eliminate these worms. So what I decided to do is to harvest all of the cherries just when a few became obviously ripe. Eat the few fresh and cann all the rest for a treat in the wintertime. And as I harvest to remove any bad looking cherry. So my plan is basically to keep the tree clean of insects that live as a worm inside the cherries. When I harvest, I cut open each cherry to inspect for a worm and remove the pit. So 5 years ago the average was about 2 good cherries out of 10 picked. Nowadays the average is about 49 good cherries for every 50 cherries picked. So the method works very well, and I started to see results not just this year but last year also, only it was not 49/50 good cherries. So anyway, instead of rushing to a sprayer with chemicals, the moral of this story is to conceive a plan and execute the plan and wait for good results. So there are probably alot of fruit trees that are wormy and insect infested for which it is due largely to neglect of proper maintenance. That the tree does not need a load of chemicals, but only some plan to remove bad fruit and diligence in harvesting. Now perhaps the moral of this story carries over to family life as well. That to keep our sons and daughters from going rotten, if the parents set a diligent and perservering track of watching and encouraging and gentle guidance, that our daughters and sons will not go rotten. But alot of parents do not give that time. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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