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well I hope the birds enjoyed my cherries! tut!

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bikergran Fri 10-Jul-15 08:39:05

We planted a cherry tree 3 years ago and last year it fruited for the first time, unfortunately dh never got to see the fruit he was too poorly and died as the fruit ripened, we did put two little cherries in his coffin.

So this year we have been eagerly awaiting them to ripen, there was only about 15 cherries on but we were going to sit on the bench eat the cherries an have "a moment" dd came round on Wednesday and I went out to pick the ripened cherries !! and they had all gone!!! they were there a few days prior!! I looked around to see if they had fallen on the floor,or dropped off etc, but nothing, the little stalks are still on the tree but that's it....we do have male n female thrush that visit every night (also pigeons which we are going to have words with next door as they keep feeding them) and two people have reported rats this last week)!

Well if it was the birds I hope they enjoyed them lol I have to smile, the little tinkers shock oh well roll on next year! lol. can't think where else they could have gone, kids don't come round only gs. and he hasn't touched them.

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annodomini Fri 10-Jul-15 09:01:23

It was undoubtedly the birds, biker. They are not to be trusted with cherries! Once we had a new cherry tree in the last but one garden. Did we have any chance of tasting its first crop? Not a bit of it. However, the blossom in spring was very beautiful!

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annsixty Fri 10-Jul-15 09:21:53

The pigeons have stripped my only blackcurrant bush and although I can't believe it, the gooseberries from two new young bushes. I hope they got the trots. Not on my washing though!!

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Teetime Fri 10-Jul-15 09:34:18

biker what a poignant memory for you. flowers

Our little cherry was abundant last year but the cherries were not sweet and we let the birds have them This year we think the high winds that battered it have split the trunk further down and there were only a few cherries which the birds are enjoying. After the season DH will explore it and see if the tree needs to come down. sad

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Greyduster Fri 10-Jul-15 13:38:42

DH said it was slugs that were decimating my strawberries until I spotted a blackbird pecking away at one before I had put the nets on them. Then one evening having come home starving hungry, we sat down to dinner and DH noticed a bird at the edge of the bed that didn't appear to be moving. We went out and found a starling so badly tangled in the netting that it took us nearly twenty minutes to painstakingly cut it free, using needlework scissors! Fortunately, it hadn't damaged anything and flew away safely. I hope it learned its lesson - dinner was cold! Oddly, if you put strawberries out on the law, the blackbirds won't eat them, though they make short work of an apple.

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constance Fri 10-Jul-15 16:59:33

Love that you put the cherries in the coffin Bikergran

There's a flock of starlings that come down when the little black grapes in our back garden are ripe - they are popular with the blackbirds too, who sometimes nest in the vine so must be like living in a sweet shop for them. I am too lazy to net it all and sort of hope that the birds will occasionally get some of the slugs that do for everything else in the garden.

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