Carmine Jewell is really looking great now!
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wow! you’re going to be up to your ears in cherries! I’m jealous!
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What’s at the end of the row with red blooms? Everything looks great, lots of flowers! How tall are they now Ten to twelve foot?
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I’m ok with something between a hedge and individual spacing. I would like them somewhat close to each other so I can cover them more easily. Although, if I had as much coming as clarkinks, I would have enough to share with the birds!
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Yes carmine jewell are about 12’ in the tallest spots. Those trees with pink blooms are a flat wonderful peach and a contender peach. Have several other reliance peaches close by.
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Would it not work well to keep Carmine Jewell cherry bushes pruned to a smaller size, for ease of picking and netting if not for other reasons, too?
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I had 4 CJ that were near 12’ tall also, dug 2 out last year and cut the other 2 down to about 4ft this spring, will be interesting to see how they react to that! They were shading my apple trees and I have other CJs in another location so dont need that many cherries…
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Wish I could grow peaches! I have tried contender and reliance without much luck 
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Will you pick all of those yourself? Do you make juice or something? That is a LOT of cherries. I have just the one tree of CJ and i think that is enough. Must be bees everywhere?
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Clark! Hi! Do these cherries (the bush varieties) really taste like Montmorency or more like Mirabelles? Thanks!
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They have a better flavor than montmorency in my opinion!
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I’m sure they would be super easy to keep small. I on the other hand am excited to see them so big, I need to get them above my deer. It’s going to be several more years but they will get there eventually.
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I hear that! They need to get pretty tall. I expanded my cages this year because they have grown. Next year I might just run a fence all the way around the area that they grow in but large enough to pick them. Right now it’s going to be a pain to pick anything but easier to keep birds out.
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is that a tamarack ( eastern larch) in the fabric pot under it? i have a well trimmed one on my front lawn. i put lights on it for xmas. needles are a nice deep yellow color in late oct., 2 weeks after the rest of the deciduous trees have lost their leaves. i love to go into pure stands of it just as their needles drop. like walking on a carpet of solid yellow.
I dont remember what it is, they were giving them out last year at a memorial day thing we attended… Its not very happy, I have been neglecting it.
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if it looses its needles in the fall its a tamarack. 
Same for mine, maybe two weeks ahead of you… and of course fewer and smaller bushes.
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