Snows prevent me from planting

I got my 2 cherry trees in the mail on Monday.

Of course I have to wait all week to plant them in the yard…And then it snows all day Friday and the snow sets up like concrete and I can’t plant (see photo)

So $50.00 worth of Princess Anne trees are sitting in the garage in the long box on the unfinished pool table.

 I may have to open them up and wrap the roots in wet burlap or rags.  I probably will be lucky to plant them even next weekend.

Also, since the order was messed up and I didn’t get the Rainier but instead got 2 Annes, I now have no pollinator and I’m pretty sure that an Anne will not pollinate itself. So I go to Miller Nurseries online and order up a Black Gold, the one I wanted all along–only not on the Gisela-5 rootstock. Oh well. Maybe, after I kill these, I can try again next year and use the Gisela-5 stock.

Growing up, we had a Montmorency tree in the yard and when that tree got to be 15 feet high, it threw off a ton of fruit–and that’s with the birds eating all they could (squirrels too). Only trouble with dad’s Montmorency was that it was a pie-cherry. That’s right, it was basically sour. These Black Golds and Princess Annes are sweet and just for eating straight up.

Two years ago, when I went to see the Mets in Seattle, the cherries were in and all through the Pike Place Market there were gobs of cherries on every stand. Amazing, amazing, amazing cherries up there. Some people brought bags of them into Safeco Field for the game. Good thinking and still cheaper, I’m sure, than anything they serve out at the game. –fog