tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post8200320129738319496..comments2023-11-03T12:10:08.169+00:00Comments on Mutterings and Meanderings: With a cherry on topMutterings and Meanderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01384198819878227966noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-86879719244615983432007-04-05T21:10:00.000+01:002007-04-05T21:10:00.000+01:00Cherries are my absolute most favourite fruit in t...Cherries are my absolute most favourite fruit in the whole world. I once risked life and limb to climb my nan's old cherry tree because there were two red cherries on the top- and guess what?! The birds had pecked them away at the back leaving only a shiny red shell facing the house. BASTARDS!Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13379877200876051274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-45932519666107235262007-04-05T09:26:00.000+01:002007-04-05T09:26:00.000+01:00M&M I'm not sure how long the avocadoes will take ...M&M I'm not sure how long the avocadoes will take to grow (a while I should think). I'll try to dig up the article online, if not I'll look in my scrap book and hope that I kept the cutting!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09284082835424987769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-59190305804295834192007-04-05T08:12:00.000+01:002007-04-05T08:12:00.000+01:00Grocer, if I had seen the bird, it would now be an...Grocer, if I had seen the bird, it would now be an <I>ex</I>-bird...Mutterings and Meanderingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384198819878227966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-86549392382241650272007-04-04T23:38:00.000+01:002007-04-04T23:38:00.000+01:00I know with our Apple Tree we need to prune back a...I know with our Apple Tree we need to prune back annually in order to encourage fruiting, I am not sure about cherries though. Did you see which species of bird ate the cherries?Gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17979621132151870323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-69003952515880694442007-04-04T21:45:00.000+01:002007-04-04T21:45:00.000+01:00Lizzie - we need constancy in our fruit - well, I ...Lizzie - we need constancy in our fruit - well, I would rather my cherry tree constantly produced ...<BR/><BR/>James - thank you, you're very kind!Mutterings and Meanderingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384198819878227966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-23913688038287643872007-04-04T19:15:00.000+01:002007-04-04T19:15:00.000+01:00I love cherries and this post was a delight. Besi...I love cherries and this post was a delight. Besides, the background colour suited it.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-74774457964804671582007-04-04T17:26:00.000+01:002007-04-04T17:26:00.000+01:00I think fruit trees go from famine to glut from ye...I think fruit trees go from famine to glut from year to year, depending on all sorts of things, like early frosts, for instance. Ours do at least. So one year there isn't a single pear while the following year the poor tree is struggling to keep upright with the weight of its fruit. Haven't tried cherries yet. I think the birds would decimate every cherry they could find if there were any to find at all.Chris at 'Chrissie's Kitchen'https://www.blogger.com/profile/00114973753249296715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-84749325696409743852007-04-04T12:32:00.000+01:002007-04-04T12:32:00.000+01:00Anon, I don't do the gardening business - I leave ...Anon, I don't do the gardening business - I leave that to people who know what they're doing! I bought the bugger so it should produce fruit!<BR/><BR/>Mountaineer - that's lovely ...<BR/><BR/>Anna - were you the person searching for 'prue sarn' or is your comment just serendipitous?<BR/><BR/>Mopsa - I think my cherry tree is just lazy. <BR/><BR/>Ziggi - I will check mine for buds tonight ...<BR/><BR/>Rilly - :0<BR/><BR/>Karen - how long to avocados take to grow? I love 'emMutterings and Meanderingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384198819878227966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-33146799516881794102007-04-04T11:19:00.000+01:002007-04-04T11:19:00.000+01:00I too live in a rented house and dodn't even have ...I too live in a rented house and dodn't even have a garden. At the moment I have an aloe vera and a money tree on the window ledge of my kitchen.<BR/><BR/>In my tiny yard I have on pot which had crocuses in, now has what I think are grape hyacinths and will eventually have Queen of the Night tulips - my favourite flowers!<BR/><BR/>I would love to grow an avocado tree as I read an article in the Guardian and seems fairly easy.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09284082835424987769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-76956032797254565582007-04-04T09:50:00.000+01:002007-04-04T09:50:00.000+01:00darling darling, we really need to have a girl to ...darling darling, we really need to have a girl to girl talk about you losing your cherries in this wayrilly superhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05448694078653341955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-5175056523109050662007-04-04T08:43:00.000+01:002007-04-04T08:43:00.000+01:00what a coincidence - I planted a pear, plum and ch...what a coincidence - I planted a pear, plum and cherry 2 years ago when we moved here. The plums and pears were great last year but no cherries either. So following your post I have been out to inspect and there are definitely buds on there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-47950990178545321732007-04-04T08:42:00.000+01:002007-04-04T08:42:00.000+01:004 cherries planted in the orchard this winter - 2 ...4 cherries planted in the orchard this winter - 2 morello, 1 Dun and 1 Fice - if they are as laggardly as yours has turned out to be, I'll cry! Perhaps a sprinkle of "oofle dust" round the base might help (a singular pruning specialist's lingo for bone meal).Mopsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17912659592484055741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-11471963721638073472007-04-04T01:46:00.000+01:002007-04-04T01:46:00.000+01:00You poor dear. It's a cruel joke, these fruit tre...You poor dear. It's a cruel joke, these fruit trees play. I had a gloriously beautiful plum tree w/ spring buds that shone peridot green against the still steely spring sky. Summer would finally bring harvest and all the darn plums looked like they needed a cleft palate surgery. Argh.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04944020026020948429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-54309408691220921972007-04-03T23:33:00.000+01:002007-04-03T23:33:00.000+01:00mountainear - for some stupid reason whenever I se...mountainear - for some stupid reason whenever I see your 'handle' I think of that joke about 'Spock' having a 'left ear, right ear, and space, the final frontear [sic]...<BR/><BR/>Sorry, I guess it must just be me..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-31488415242459809252007-04-03T22:38:00.000+01:002007-04-03T22:38:00.000+01:00....and these words aren't mine (I wish they were).......and these words aren't mine (I wish they were). We have have AE Housman to thank:<BR/> <BR/>'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now <BR/>Is hung with bloom along the bough, <BR/>And stands about the woodland ride <BR/>Wearing white for Eastertide. <BR/> <BR/>Now, of my threescore years and ten, <BR/>Twenty will not come again, <BR/>And take from seventy springs a score, <BR/>It only leaves me fifty more. <BR/> <BR/>And since to look at things in bloom <BR/>Fifty springs are little room, <BR/>About the woodlands I will go <BR/>To see the cherry hung with snow.'<BR/><BR/>We've planted fruit trees here, apple, pear, plum and cherry - choosing local varieties where we can. Wonder if we will be here long enough to see our orchard at it's best - but guess we should plant for the future as well as for ourselves.mountainearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15977393968796316843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340201738604749473.post-79049590430671978772007-04-03T22:31:00.000+01:002007-04-03T22:31:00.000+01:00You have made me feel very guilty now - as a 'home...You have made me feel very guilty now - as a 'homeowner' I can't be bothered to do any gardening at all. <BR/><BR/>But maybe we would be better living a semi-nomadic existence ? If you put up a tree at your accommodation, and everyone else had the same idea, then when you move somewhere else you just take on someone else's tree ? <BR/><BR/>After all, the fact that I have the freedom to 'own' my home is nonsense. The bank owns my house and is just another form of slavery as the mortgage has to be paid. <BR/><BR/>I am not green fingered myself, but there is a national scandal about the lack of allotments, as councils sell off the land and drive us into the arms of the supermarkets built on the school playing fields they also used to own. <BR/><BR/>Like you, I could plant trees at my parents house, which has a large-ish garden [and already has a few apple trees] but I am just too bloody lazy. But maybe my guilt will gnaw away at me and conscience will push me into learning those skills I so often dismissed as not worth the candle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com