Picking Time at Cherrydale

27/10/2012

 

Started some spot (colour) picking today on Empress with my sons Mark and John.

5 weeks since last blog entry.

Typical mixed bag of weather this spring hot, cold, 75mm of timely rain, some snow mixed with rain, sleet a couple of light frosts, but, Here We Are!!!

In this district it takes approximately 45-50 days from Empress to Sweet Georgia.  

 

 

 

 

Mark and John

 

have picked cherries all their life.[

 



 

 

 

First cherries for the season on the table for sorting.

 





 

 



Bottom of an 2 kg Empress Box

 

&

 



its row faced top (below)

 

 



John from Pascoes, Rocklea markets (Brisbane) with Eleesia, Jenny and Myself



This is the stage of the other cultivars in the orchard.

 

Early Burlat below

 

Van



 

Stella

 



 

Bing



 

 

Sweet Georgia

 

 

Lapin

 

Rons

 

 

Lewis



 

Eagles

 

Merchant

 



 

Simone

 

A young Santina tree

 





 

Entrance to the Fruit Barn

 



 

 

My mother Fay standing near the weeping cherry she planted in 1990

 

This is an open and honest look at what is happening around Cherrydale today.

 

I wish all cherrygrowers in Australia a good harvest.