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See photos of our beautiful cherry blossom in full bloom ready for the season ahead
We are now onto our final variety of Sweetheart at the farm. Not necessarily the biggest, but packed with flavour. Sweetheart is a redder cherry, similar to Penny. With just a few more rows to pick the season is drawing to a close!
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 was, the remaining fruit has been great quality. The relentless sunshine has made sure the cherries are packed with flavour and we have been irrigating the trees every other day to keep them happy. This will continue as long as it is dry as the trees are now busy laying down bud for next year’s crop and we still need to look after them.
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....!