This morning I chased away not one, but two squirrels. They were doing their best to break the cherry laden branches off the one tree. There are actually two trees growing side by side. So I stripped off the remaining cherries from the one tree and cut a huge piece of netting and tied up the other cherries. It likely won’t keep them off completely, but will hopefully slow them down a bit. So these are about a week or so from being fully ripe, but they are still lovely and sweet.

This is about a quarter of what was on the tree. From weighing out last night’s fruit I’d say this is probably about 3 or 4lbs worth of fruit. Some we’ve eaten, some we’ve given away. More than half fell to birds and squirrels. Next year I will be more prepared. The trees need a lot of trimming back though so next year’s yield may be low. The good new is that the boysenberries and the raspberries are starting to show colour!