I'm Finally Done!

Category: Pianolady's Gardens | Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:16 pm

Done pitting cherries that is. I've never had a year like this, a month full of picking and pitting cherries, bumper crop! I have two trees, one that blooms two weeks later than the other so they don't all ripen at the same time.

This year I got 36 pounds of pitted cherries, enough for 18 pies! I gave away another 12 pounds, and left a tree full of cherries because I just don't see the need to buy a taller ladder to pick them. My Norpro Deluxe stoner is still working fine, much to my amazement for such an inexpensive gadget. Going to buy another one for backup next year though, I've been using this one for 5 years now.

http://www.amazon.com/Norpro-Deluxe-Cherry-Stoner-Pitter/dp/B00005EBH0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1245517373&sr=8-1

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Netty wrote on Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:16 pm:

Lucky you! I am lucky if my cherry tree flowers at all!

toni wrote on Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:56 pm:

I have been noticing cherries in the grocery store. I really hate pitting them but they taste so good it's worth the effort.

Summer Solstice isn't too far off and we always have Cherry Soup for dessert that night.

Kay wrote on Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:13 pm:

That's a lot of cherries! I picked about 2 gal. this past week from my boss's trees. They were loaded this year! Bob is looking forward to a cherry cobbler or crisp. That is; if I can stay out of the garden long enough to pit em and do the baking...