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Sweet Cherries - Beware
There's been a bit of discussion lately about sweet cherries so a word
of warning. We have a heavily cropping mature sweet cherry in our garden and the cherries are delicious - the ones left for us, that is! They are exceedingly attractive to birds and squirrels and they will literally gorge on them. Wood Pigeons like them and Blackbirds are quite destructive, often slashing into cherries and leaving them damaged rather than taking the whole fruit. We even have a pair of Carrion Crows regularly feeding on them. When they come all other birds leave the garden, although the pigeons will try to stand up to them for so long. Today a flock of Starlings, 50 at least, descended on the tree, but left in a hurry when an indignant Lord Crow dropped vertically into the top, staying to eat a couple of cherries himself. If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe cherries. Pigeons even take them green. |
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If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe cherries. Pigeons even take them green. What do you think old nylons are for?! Geoff |
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"Geoff" wrote in message ... If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe cherries. Pigeons even take them green. What do you think old nylons are for?! Geoff bank robberies to earn the money to buy cherries at the supermarket? -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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from "Geoff" contains these words: If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe cherries. Pigeons even take them green. What do you think old nylons are for?! Old lechers like me? -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message ... "Geoff" wrote in message ... If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe cherries. Pigeons even take them green. What do you think old nylons are for?! Geoff bank robberies to earn the money to buy cherries at the supermarket? -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com At supermarket prices I can believe it. |
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There's been a bit of discussion lately about sweet cherries so a word
of warning. We have a heavily cropping mature sweet cherry in our garden and the cherries are delicious - the ones left for us, that is! They are exceedingly attractive to birds and squirrels and they will literally gorge on them. Wood Pigeons like them and Blackbirds are quite destructive, often slashing into cherries and leaving them damaged rather than taking the whole fruit. We even have a pair of Carrion Crows regularly feeding on them. When they come all other birds leave the garden, although the pigeons will try to stand up to them for so long. Today a flock of Starlings, 50 at least, descended on the tree, but left in a hurry when an indignant Lord Crow dropped vertically into the top, staying to eat a couple of cherries himself. If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe cherries. Pigeons even take them green. Tell us about it! Squirrels have been laying siege here, even leave the fruit cage door unsecured for 5 minutes and they're in there. We had to resort to wire netting over the cage. They aren't so interested in the other fruit, once the cherries have been picked we can relax a bit -- Rod My real address is rodtheweedygardeneratmyweedyisp Just remove the weedy bits and transplant the appropriate symbol at. "Jupiter" wrote in message news |
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If you think you can leave your cherries, that are just no quite ripe
till tomorrow. Then forget about it. As the blackbirds, pigeons etc will have wiped them out during the night ?? and will leave absolutley nothing on the branches. So cover them up, the cherries that is, not the birds. |
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On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:47:23 +0100, "Rod Craddock"
wrote: There's been a bit of discussion lately about sweet cherries so a word of warning. We have a heavily cropping mature sweet cherry in our garden and the cherries are delicious - the ones left for us, that is! They are exceedingly attractive to birds and squirrels and they will literally gorge on them. Wood Pigeons like them and Blackbirds are quite destructive, often slashing into cherries and leaving them damaged rather than taking the whole fruit. We even have a pair of Carrion Crows regularly feeding on them. When they come all other birds leave the garden, although the pigeons will try to stand up to them for so long. Today a flock of Starlings, 50 at least, descended on the tree, but left in a hurry when an indignant Lord Crow dropped vertically into the top, staying to eat a couple of cherries himself. If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe cherries. Pigeons even take them green. Tell us about it! Squirrels have been laying siege here, even leave the fruit cage door unsecured for 5 minutes and they're in there. We had to resort to wire netting over the cage. They aren't so interested in the other fruit, once the cherries have been picked we can relax a bit I think some of ours are morphiong into flying foxes. I've seen them take a run along the top of the fence and leap 10 feet or so straight into the cherry tree. |
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:11:22 GMT, gray wrote:
If you think you can leave your cherries, that are just no quite ripe till tomorrow. Then forget about it. As the blackbirds, pigeons etc will have wiped them out during the night ?? and will leave absolutley nothing on the branches. So cover them up, the cherries that is, not the birds. Actually, the crows are probably quite useful, apart from the noise and habit of depositing bird skeletons on the garden paths. We haven't seen a magpie in the garden since they arrived. They intimidate and chase off other birds from the cherry tree and don't take that many themselves. When they do, it's a whole cherry carefully and neatly removed. |
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Jupiter wrote:
: There's been a bit of discussion lately about sweet cherries so a word : of warning. We have a heavily cropping mature sweet cherry in our : garden and the cherries are delicious - the ones left for us, that is! : They are exceedingly attractive to birds and squirrels and they will : literally gorge on them. Wood Pigeons like them and Blackbirds are : quite destructive, often slashing into cherries and leaving them : damaged rather than taking the whole fruit. We even have a pair of : Carrion Crows regularly feeding on them. When they come all other : birds leave the garden, although the pigeons will try to stand up to : them for so long. Today a flock of Starlings, 50 at least, descended : on the tree, but left in a hurry when an indignant Lord Crow dropped : vertically into the top, staying to eat a couple of cherries himself. : If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional : treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe : cherries. Pigeons even take them green. And if you think you have it sorted by netting the trees (mine are on dwarfing root stock, but it's still a job and a half), then when they ripen the wasps get in and get them once they are near ripe. |
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:21:54 +0000 (UTC), J Jackson
wrote: Jupiter wrote: : There's been a bit of discussion lately about sweet cherries so a word : of warning. We have a heavily cropping mature sweet cherry in our : garden and the cherries are delicious - the ones left for us, that is! : They are exceedingly attractive to birds and squirrels and they will : literally gorge on them. Wood Pigeons like them and Blackbirds are : quite destructive, often slashing into cherries and leaving them : damaged rather than taking the whole fruit. We even have a pair of : Carrion Crows regularly feeding on them. When they come all other : birds leave the garden, although the pigeons will try to stand up to : them for so long. Today a flock of Starlings, 50 at least, descended : on the tree, but left in a hurry when an indignant Lord Crow dropped : vertically into the top, staying to eat a couple of cherries himself. : If anyone is hoping for a viable crop, rather than the occasional : treat, it will almost certainly be necessary to protect the ripe : cherries. Pigeons even take them green. And if you think you have it sorted by netting the trees (mine are on dwarfing root stock, but it's still a job and a half), then when they ripen the wasps get in and get them once they are near ripe. My cherries are just about finished now (the ones still left) and the wasps haven't shown up yet. However, the neighbouring plum tree is coming along nicely - again a heavy crop this year and I've had to support some of the branches. Being bigger than cherries, wasps can get right inside them so care is needed when picking them. They get drunk on the windfalls and buzz around at ankle level, incapable of taking off properly. Bit like our local bingedrinking ASBO merchants who can't find their way home at night. |
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