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[Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>]

Bernie,

Obviously you and your friends aren't eating enough cherries.

You should order a few big boxes from the Okanagan next summer and 
have a cherry party.  You could even avoid the need of sowing the 
seeds by having a cherry pit spitting contest in the area you plan to 
devote to this experiment.

I am doing the same thing with apricots.  The commercial varieties 
don't like our cool maritime climate, but I'm sure I'll find one that 
does.  I throw out all the pits when I'm bottling fruit, but so far 
it looks like the apricots don't even want to come up.  All the trees 
in the compost area are peaches.

--
Diane Whitehead  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil