Our New Life in the Country: The Smallest of Crops

Saturday, 16 June 2012

The Smallest of Crops

One of our Cherry trees in all it's glory.......can you see the crop for this year?

You do have to look close!!

It's going on Lovely Hubby's dessert tonight......I'll show you the finished dish tomorrow!

And yes, it has been nibbled at by something, but he won't mind, after all he is getting to eat the whole of our Cherry crop in one go.

It's on a par with our smallest ever Melon crop in 2009, yes, that's right that is a Melon sitting in the egg cup!!

Sue xx

5 comments:

Unknown16 June 2012 at 18:33
Ooo lovely pic's. Can you tell me why the trees are planted in the tyres? I haven't seen that done before...no doubt there is a good reason. All looks very lush and healthy where you are .. I couldn't live without a bit of green.
Hope hubby enjoys his cherry crop!

Vicky
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Sue16 June 2012 at 18:47
When we moved we had to dig up the trees, we found that luckily they had remarkably small root systems, so we thought we might be able to get away with planting them in tyres, then when we move again in just under three years they can come with us without being disturbed too much.

Fingers crossed it goes to plan!!

Sue xx
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Wanda16 June 2012 at 19:02
Oh, go on! Admit it! That's not a melon - you've shaved a gooseberry! :-)
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Campfire16 June 2012 at 21:08
Oh, what a shame. Nice pics though.
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Arwedd16 June 2012 at 21:51
Mmm, I love sherries, oh sorry and Cherries!! I hope he savours it, lol.

Arwedd xx
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

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It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

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