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  • From: lbsaltzman@aol.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Benign Neglect
  • Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:13:27 -0400

They are sweet cherries.  I am going to try and visit the orchard if I can
and learn more.  Birds do love cherries.  I am having some look discouraging
them by hanging used CDs in my fruit trees, but you have to remove them after
fruiting and before they degenerate and spew plastic onto the landscape.


-----Original Message-----
From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 9:07 am
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Benign Neglect



Any idea what variety they are? Are they sweet or pie cherries?
~mIEKAL
If only the robins didn't eat most of my cherries....

n Jun 5, 2007, at 11:02 AM, lbsaltzman@aol.com wrote:
>
I buy some produce from a local fruitstand who deals with a lot of
local organic farmers. They got in some incredible cherries and
the owner of the stand told me the story connected with them. They
come from an abandoned orchard. The current owner of the orchard
ignores them and does absolutely nothing. He doesn't prune, weed,
fertilize, or spray the trees. They are totally ignored. Once a
year a crew comes in and picks the cherries. This has been going
on for twelve years yet with no reduction in quality or the size of
the crop. There may be a lesson here for a lot of conventional
farmers who manage orchards.
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