Greetings, Fellow Up-To-The-Neck-With-Cherries People!
The challenge I have in general having too little time to work on a garden of too large a scale. Maintaining it is a challenge, producing anything in such conditions is a challenge, and then...when harvest gets here, even having a good harvest becomes a challenge.
It comes in a flashflood and then it's over.
A large tree planted there by my grandfather has come to...well...fruition again. It's kind of early, before most other cherry trees ripen. And even though I climbed, I was able to reach only a fraction of it in the end.
And it's already getting too late.
Well, we have a nice agreement with blackbirds, jays, etc. that they shall have the top layers.
Me, I had just a single basket today.
And that's still a lot.
Quite dark, already.
And quite a lot when it comes to just a guy processing them all before they go to waste.
More than what we can eat, and we need to preserve it in some way.
Giving it away to friends is a bit risky since it's not treated with any pesticides and now that the cherries are quite ripen, most of them sport small white maggots or worms.
And if they remain on the tree, rot shall soon be settling in.
So, up in the branches and grab what you can!
Well, about those attempts at preservation...
Keeping the cherries for a few days in a fridge works. They should soon be eaten.
Freezing them makes them lose their taste, it would seem.
Trying to dry them ended up in decay and mold.
So...next time, it's Jam!
Peacin' and Jammin'
Yours,
Manol
