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See photos of our beautiful cherry blossom in full bloom ready for the season ahead
We are now starting to make plans for the 2019 picking season. If you love working as part of a team, surrounded by nature please get in touch, as we are now starting to recruit for the 2019 cherry harvest.
We will be looking for both picking and selling staff for approximately 4 weeks starting from around mid-July.
The trees were netted in early April 2019 and look really well. Luckily the crop enjoyed a good cold winter with sufficient ‘chill hours’, but we are now hoping that the frost stays away at this critical point in the development of our product – ‘pollination’. All of our bees (bumble and honey) have now arrived and we are hoping for long warm days to ensure that they have the best conditions possible to do their job. We are able to marginally protect half of the orchard from mild frosts with covers, but of course this means that we need to supplement the covered trees with irrigation at the same time to ensure that they get sufficient water. It is a fine balancing act!
This year’s blossom is 2-3 weeks earlier than last year, predominantly due to the unseasonably warm weather that we enjoyed in February when temperatures soured to the mid 20s for a few days. It is still too early to talk with any confidence about the 2019 crop, as we are now heavily reliant on nature doing its job in establishing a good fruit ‘set’ and cell division. We will keep you posted!
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....!