First Kansas Sweet Cherry Harvest

Reader Contribution by Hank Will and Editor-In-Chief
Published on June 16, 2009
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A couple of years ago I planted a Kansas Sweet Cherry tree in the yard to the west of the lane. I figured that grassy area would make a nice place for a small orchard. So far there are just a few fruit trees there and they seem to be doing OK. As I recall the spot where the cherry is planted has its share of crushed limestone in it – the digging wasn’t as easy as I had hoped it would be when I planted that specimen.</p>
<p>Earlier this spring, that little Kansas Sweet Cherry tree was the only fruit tree to pull off a crop of flowers. I really don’t know what happened to the other trees, but the cherry offered about 50 blossoms to the local pollinating insect population during some interval between extreme cold and dry blasting wind. The weekend before last, while reinforcing one of the barbed wire fences with additional strands of hot and cold wire, I noticed a small bounty of bright red cherries on my Kansas Sweet Cherry tree.</p>
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