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Update Tuesday 17th July – our early varieties of Sylvia, Vanda, Summer Sun and Kordia were a flash in the pan and we are now well into the Penny. Penny is absolutely superb this year and the best quality we’ve ever seen. It is a redder cherry – big – juicy and one of our favourites. There will be a small final pick of some of our earlier varieties and then we will be moving on to Regina towards the end of the week. Regina is a big black cherry and super sweet.
After blossom time the fruit set initially looked good but if you recall the cold and wet spell that we had in April, this turned out to affect cell division. This meant that some of the fruilets on our earlier varieties failed to grow and fell of the tree during June (known as “run off” or the “June drop”). Disappointing as it is, the remaining fruit will often be better quality as the tree puts all of its energy into these. The latter half of the crop is looking good however so we expect it to be a season of two halves! The lovely sunshine we are currently experiencing is good for our fruit to ripen and we are busy irrigating due to lack of rain.
It is with regret that we will not be sending out our gift boxes of cherries by courier delivery this year (except for bulk orders over the phone (10 boxes +). The manpower, expense and regulatory issues of selling cherries online are sadly too onerous for a business running such a short selling season. We hope that you will be able to make a visit to the farm or one of our other outlets instead to collect your fresh cherries!
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Exciting news – there is less than a month to go until the 2017 cherry harvest is underway. We expect to open around Saturday 8th July at the farm shop, but please check our website and twitter feed (@englishcherry) for exact dates and times.
As the season approaches, the word is getting out that our beautiful fresh English cherries can be ordered online. We have been truly delighted with the response that we have received to our new website and online courier service and have pasted a couple of the more recent articles from our friends at OVL and Woman & Home. Please continue to spread the word....!