We're going to have cherries this year

[Grumpy Old Man]

I saw Helomech's thread on fruit trees so I went outside my office to take a couple of pics of our cherry trees. we have about 11 trees and they all started blossoming this weekend. We only get fruit every other year and this year is the year-if we can beat the birds to it! Once they start fruiting I may cover them with mesh to keep the sky rats from decimating the crop.

Here are 2 of the trees. Spring is here in SoCal!





Yes it is a good place to be in spite of the bureaucracy!

[Grumpy Old Man]

Some close-ups

[bacpacker]

Very nice! We had a boat load from one tree 2 years ago. It looked to be more last year until our April hailstorm stripped it bare. I sure hope we have a calmer spring this year.

[Sniper-T]

nice!

We had 10" of snow the other day!

[helomech]

Sweet, I want some cherry trees bad.

[bacpacker]

I put out trees #2 & 3 last spring. All three are different types. 1 sweet and 2 tart's.

[Dropy]

nice. I want pie!!

[ladyhk13]

My dh, sister, mom and I went last year to a local grove and I picked over $80. worth of cherries. It took me days to can them (made jam). I don't know how many pounds we got that day...amazing! LOT'S that's for sure. I was so glad we bought a cherry pitter.

[realist]

Cherries and brandy on cheese cake........... I planted two trees last year and I am going to buy some more bare root this year.

[ladyhk13]

Love cherry cheese cake...my favorite! When we were kids in upstate n.y everyone had bing cherry, apple and pear trees in their yards so when things were ripe we always had fruit to pick when we were outside playing. What a wonderful way to be a kid - people would have a cow nowdays if they did that.