This year the cherries began to ripen around the end of May and the first week of June. We think because the weather has been so from one extreme to the next { rains one day, next day in the 90's then back to the 70's } are cherries riped sooner. We have a lot of cherries on the tree, however most went bad.
The cherry looked perfect until, I turned it over!
I climbed and ladder and my son was in his tree house helping my pick cherries. Next year, I'll be watching the cherries closer much closer, to snag a bunch of fresh fruit.
So far we were only able to fill a small bowel of cherries. I need to do a little research and see if we leave the spioled cherries on the tree or remove them.
While picking the cherries off our tree, I also discovered we have a peach or apricot tree? in our back yard. Most of them are still green but a few are turning a faint peach color.
It's so much fun to discover fruit bearing trees in our back yard. I'd love to plant a small lemon or lime tree in the back yard in a large container { perfect embellishment for adult refreshments }
Do you have any fruit bearing tree at your house? Or plans to add one to your home
oh man, i so wish i had a peach tree! lucky lucky you!
ReplyDeletesuch a treat. growing up we had apple, pear, and plum trees.
ReplyDeleteonce it all gets going, you'll have a nice little fruit salad!
one of the things i loved about cali--the abundance of orange, lemon, grapefruit, and kumquat trees in the backyard--yum.
ReplyDeleteI'm super jealous! I have a mystery tree that grows some sort of fruit-like thing... I honestly have no clue what it is other than something fun for my dog to chew up.
ReplyDeleteOh, I m jealous - we don't have any fruit tress but we used when I was younger...Those cherries look yummy..
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Kiki
Jen - I used to love picking blackberries in the summer where I grew up, yumm! I looking forward to seeing our how your blueberries turn out!
ReplyDeleteWe don't have any fruit-bearing trees, but if we did, I think I'd be making pies all the time! :)
ReplyDeleteOh that looks yummy....no fruit trees in our yard but I am loving the raspberry bushes right now. Every spring I stare wistfully at all the fun varieties of fruit trees in the nursery, but we just don't have a good spot to plant them. Can't wait to see how the peaches turn out!
ReplyDeletejenny - your raspberries looked so yummy!! I want to plant some next year
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