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[Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com>]

They're generally sour even when ripe, too sour for me, but a lot of other people like the flavor. Let the harvested fruit sit for a few days and the flavor mellows some. All this, and more, is in the cornelian cherry chapter of my book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden.

Lee Reich, PhD

garden@leereich.com 

Books by Lee Reich:

The Pruning Book

Weedless Gardening

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

A Northeast Gardener's Year

On Aug 25, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Ginda Fisher wrote:

Today I noticed two fruits on one of my Cornus Mas.  I didn't think  

that tree even flowered, so it was a pleasant surprise.  (The other  

one had a lot of flowers.)  I ate one, and it was clearly underripe -  

hard and very sour, but not too bad.  The other one was slightly  

redder, but also hard to the touch.

How can I tell when it is ripe?

I'm tempted to just pick the fruit now, before some critter gets it,  

but it would be neat to get it to ripen.

thanks,

Ginda Fisher

eastern Mass., zone 6

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