Picked and pitted 20 pounds of Juliet.
I HIGHLY recommend the Leifheit cherry stoner. It allowed two of us to pit 20 pounds in less than 30 minutes!
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Sweet! We just picked ours a couple days ago. Definitely not at 20 lbs yet, but it’s our best harvest to date. Maybe a pound or two.
We end up picking when we notice they birds start disappearing them. Not as sweet as optimum picking time, but they are still sweet enough to eat out of hand at this stage.
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What ya gonna make? I see the pot full back there! Or is that a bowl ?
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We usually make cherry pies but also jam/jelly. They are really good.
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Mine arent even turning red yet!
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Wow Amazon says delivery Jan 18. I ended up with 10 pounds this year so next year im betting I will want one. Miss very many pits with that?
Finally got to taste our Juliet cherries. Pleasantly surprised!
We waited until they were quite dark red, really slightly overripe, they were soft to the touch.
Deep red inside, Very juicy. Not sweet, but really not sour, either.
Not a really strong cherry taste, but really pleasurable eating.
Very pleased.
Planting question: I have an order for 2 Juliet’s in addition to a currant and gooseberry with HBU. Turns out they ship end of October or “mid/end April” (when dormant and when ground thawed). For people in mid Atlantic 7b-ish — what have you chosen/would you? I only planted once in November and the tree suffered. I think the possibility for freeze/thaw is bad for the roots? But, weather is a crap shoot, so it might not freeze until December. If they don’t ship until end of April, I would be planting with gooseberry and currant in May, which also could be bad/require a lot of daily watering particularly for the goose. What is the lesser of the two evils?
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I planted a bunch of stuff in the fall from when and it did great. They are colder than us so everything is dormant. My cutie piebush cherry I planted in the fall last year, South facing and it’s doing great.
Of the 8 plants I’ve gotten from them all 8 are alive and well.
With our weather I strongly advise against late April / May planting for GB/Currants. They get fried, steamed and roasted with our weather. I burned up some already last year doing that.
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In SE PA I’ve planted various GB/currants in both Spring and Fall. I’ve had fewer weather related losses to the Spring plantings than the Fall ones. The Spring/Summer ones need more attention watering them, but several Fall planted ones didn’t survive the Winter.
I decided last year to dig up and seedling gooseberry planted for me by the birds as part of their breeding program. I recommend not doing that. Maybe GB could use a lot more perlite or something in the potting mix than standard Miracle Gro or whatever I used, but they’re a lot less fussy in the ground.
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Thanks for your input. I’m realizing I should have posted this to the mid Atlantic thread…