Yeah I always wonder where bakeries get their pie cherries from. Maybe they buy frozen ?
Cherries are expensive here , I guess growing can save some money, assuming birds don’t wipe out an entire crop
I currently have a whitegold which has a really good taste, but I think I will get some montmorency to graft . I don’t mind tart fruit so I will plan to mostly eat them fresh. Any other good sour cherries ?
They are available for about 1 week in select stores for the year, so there’s a supplier somewhere for fresh sour cherries! But yes, likely they’re processed in some way for all the other ways to eat them
Let me know if you want to exchange some Whitegold for Montmorency scions. I got some Montmorency scions from @TNHunter last year and the grafts grew 2-3ft over the summer. I sent you a message.
Wow that’s lucky. I’ve never seen fresh tart cherries in Maryland. We love frozen montmorency…if my explorations with sweet cherries fails, I’ll be happy to graft them over to tart, but given how expensive organic sweet cherries are and how much my family loves them, I’m going to bang my head against a wall for a few years and try.
Anyone in the area that wants elderberry cuttings, just shoot me a message with whenever you would like to stop by and grab some. Going to cut them all today. Just shove in the ground and forget or if you want a rooted cutting, I’m sure I’ll have many extra in late spring.
Ive decided to move long island from the new york and new england chat to here. My climate is more like the coastal middle then those people up in the cold.
Hello all ill be skimmin thru
How late does everyone wait to hit their copper oil delayed spray? Any idea how long the phototoxic effect persists and if it is only harmful with the initial spray or does the weathering of the application moving the material down the tree enough to be worth concern? My trees usually hit green tip mid to late march so I assume any time prior to or in the last week of February would be a good plan.
Anyone noticed any winter damage yet from our single digits? My big rosemary bush definitely has some (needles have turned brown in a bunch of spots) it’s BBQ variety, so wondering how bad it’s been zapped. Thing is like 7 years old I think.
Most damage will not be visible till the spring. I’m about 45 min west of you and I’ve tried a bunch of rosemary varieties with little success. Just can’t get them to survive long term.
My arp was a champ but I dug it out for something else cuz I had BBQ as well. My BBQ is huge probably 5 ft tall by like 6 ft wide. My guess is it will survive, it’s on South side right along my place. So rather sheltered.
If it’s that old it will most likely survive, but will be in recovery mode. I had like 10 of them and I’m now down to 2-3 that are always in recovery mode. Thyme and Sage has done better, but also takes some damage. Oregano has been bullet proof.
Does anyone grow a winter hardy tarragon plant and zone seven or eight?
last two years:
I did pears w/ copper and oil around feb 23th, then oil and then sulfur and oil around march 8th. Both times the pears were more green tipped than is recommended but everything was fine. There’s pictures of my 2024 pears in the low-impact spray guide.
I did peaches w/ copper and oil first week in march last two years and they started blooming 3rd week in march.
This year I doubt I’ll be able to spray in mid (or maybe even late) feb unless we get some really good warm days. I’ve still got inches of ice on the ground and I’m starting to doubt I"ll be able to get my car out till march…
I do my copper at delayed dormant which is as close to blossoms opening as I can get. I never had any issues with toxicity.
I’ve tried tarragon several times and all have failed.
I have had many rosemary bushes, one lasted maybe 15 years several lasted five and a bunch didn’t last many years at all. There is a big random factor to it which I never figured out.
Yeah if it dies I have something else I plan to plant instead. So won’t be heartbroken, but man, cooking turkey/chicken stuffed/on top of fresh rosemary is really good 
Thank you. That is much later than I would have thought safe. Glad to know that it didnt singe things.
All this talk about rosemary dying has me wondering if my 4 seed and cutting grown ones will survive. Something I didn’t previously question. Guess we shall see…hopefully they’re nicely insulated in their snow houses.
As long as mine survives if you need cuttings let me know. I have had to prune it and throw it in the field by my house because it just gets too big.
The cuttings seem to not like rooting tho, I think I get like 1 out of 8 to root
