CUCKOOHEAD
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Yum! We made Strawberry jam and Peach jam from our garden and tree the last couple of days.
No fair! My desert is probably red food dye and sugar. You pick the stuff from your trees? I am so jealous.
I once tried to 'harvest' cherries from a self pollinating, minature cherry tree that I bought. The first year it had 12 cherries on it and I was so excited that I called the greenhouse that I had bought the tree from and asked him how I'd know when the fruit was ripe ( I am from NYC). He said the fruit will either start falling to the ground or the birds will gather. Overnight the birds must have 'gathered' because there were zero cherries left on that tree the next morning. Motto of story don't wait for the birds to tell ya the fruit is ripe. Little devils will eat every last piece of fruit. I gave up being a farmer...