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Growing cherries
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from Rod contains these words: Janet Galpin and Oliver Patterson wrote: I apologise if this comes up twice but I sent a mail and it seems to have disappeared. I am thinking of planting a cherry tree but wondered whether any cherries are so likely to be stripped by birds that there is little point. We've got Stella and another variety whose name I've forgotten both on Colt and after over 20yrs they are still small enough to fit in a specially made high fruit cage. The bad news is we're having to fortify the cage because the birds will get through just about anything if there's ripening cherries the other side. As for Dwayne's wimpy merkin birds that don't care for unripe cherries - well ours are made of sterner stuff - just the first flush of yellow and they're down a blackbird's (or jay's neck). It was years before we realised Stella was supposed to be red. I have no experience of newer stocks but they should be small enough to cage relatively easily. I would forget cherries as a fruit crop if you can't cage them, but don't let that put you off growing them: they will hold their own with the best ornamental varieties, the trees will stay compact and the roots won't overrun the garden (if they *are* an dwarfing stocks) -- Thanks for this and all the other helpful replies. It had occurred to me that just to have one for bird food might not be a bad idea - and if we attracted a jay or two (not at all common round here) that would be reward enough. Janet G. |
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