Cherry Glut

[Grub]

What do I do with these? All ideas welcome.
Thanks, Grub

[COgarden]

Lets see,

Fees for packaging and Express Delivery to Denver, CO would be... ouch!

Do what you like with them, but PLEASE don't tell us NH'ers how good they tasted!

Kurt

[Grub]

If I could get 'em to ya I would. The majority are Rose Quartz Multiflora, a red version perhaps saved from the Japanese hybrid by a kind lady at GW whose name eludes me. But I wish she was aware of my considered views.


These are the best cherry I have ever ever grown. So crazy sweet. The key with these is to leave them to really ripen. Let them just sit there surrounded by dying foliage. Then pick - hey, no splitters - and tuck in.

I just knocked on the neighbour's door and offloaded about 1/3 of them. Lucky neighbours

[shelleybean]

I lose interest in cherries when the bigger ones are ready. I usually end up drying huge trays of cherry tomatoes in the oven and then freezing them. Then I pull out few at a time over the winter and use them in pasta and on pizza. I've had them twice in the last week and they've been a great reminder of summer!

[montanamato]

I am going to plant 5 or 6 cherries along the fence that separates the chickenyard from the lower garden. Hoping they will be a bit of a living windbreak and when a chicken flies in, they can be the shield , filling the chicken up before it finds the Big Guys.
Grub, don't you have chickens. You could give them a few for treats...
Otherwise, I halve them, an saute in olive oil a minute and eat lots of pasta tossed with cherries.

Jeanne

[melody]

If there is a nursing home or assisted living nearby, they would be grateful for the produce...it's rare that they get nice stuff like those cherries.

There's a small assisted living home near me, and they can't wait for tomato season...I bring them all sorts of wonderful things. I even took the SSE slide show and tomato plants one spring and did a presentation...then gave them the plants. They only have room for 6 plants, so it was so much fun watching them ponder and decide which ones to take.

They love the tomatoes...and I can even get rid of squash!

[JerryL]

Melody,

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. What a great idea.

My father spent the last two years of his life in a nursing home due to a stroke. I didn’t have a garden at the time and now that I do it never crossed my mind that they might want some fresh vegetables.

Everyone, help me remember this when harvest time rolls around.

Jerry

[melody]

You just can't imagine the stir that it causes to bring in some of the odd colored tomatoes...and THEN, when they taste them...boy, does that start them talking. They like the PL pinks the best overall, but everything gets scarffed down in no time...and folks who have lost their appitites even want tomatoes. Got to be giving them some much needed nutrition too.

We have some wonderful facilities in this area and the staff loves any kind of activity to keep their minds working. You'd be surprised how quickly your offer will be jumped on.

[cottonpicker]

GREAT IDEA, Melody.... God bless you!!!

[carolyn137]

When my mother moved to an adult home b'c she could no longer stay at home and refused to let us have aides come in, I took a slightly different approach to the fresh tomato "problem".

I asked the director if they had a place for inground growing and she said yes, and that the head maintenance worker already was growing a few things there.

Soooooo, that next year, for mom went there in the Fall, I brought 12 plants to them and they planted them, some of the residents helped care for them and they all loved their fresh tomatoes.

I will say that I was deliberately rather conservative as to which colors were featured, although my mom's fave gold/red bicolor was there, but no blacks, no green when ripes, no whites, by my choice and knowing what most elderly folks seem not to like based on the folks who came to mom's for fruits from my tomato patch when she was still at home.

So think also of giving plants to adult homes and nursing homes if they have the interest and facilities to grow them.

[Little_Rhody]

Hi Grub,

Glad you like the Rose Quartz Multiflora! The blossoms are exceptional. As of late all mine have been dusky pink in color. How many plants did you grow?

carolyn

[Grub]

Thanks KC,
I am keen to try the Japenese parent. I need to make a note of its name. The RQM are sweeter than Sungold - and that's sweet - and it would be great if there was some more depth back there.

Thanks Carolyn for the seeds. I'm only growing one plant, which is producing literally hundreds of pointy Reisentraube-looking cherries. So many flowers, so many fruits, and so many bees. If anything is crossed in my garden it will be with RQM

Very yummy cherries for snacking. Time to dry some, starting tonight

[cottonpicker]

I do have Rose Quartz Multiflora seed although I haven't grown / tasted it yet. I'm very curious to know it's Japanese hyb. parent you referred to....
Thanks!!!

[bully]

Ketchup

That's right ketchup or catsup.

Get a recipe from Coronabarb and cook those babies down for a month or so(slight exaggeration)

I did two years ago and have been kicking myself all winter for not doing so last year.

[Earl]

When you're sitting on the couch and not doing anything, bring in a cookie pan of cherries cut them in half, sprinkle Lawry's Season salt on them with some pepper, then dry them in the oven on low low low or food dryer. Makes great crunchy snackes, concentrated flavor. You can also toss them in soup etc. When they're still green, you can also pickle them or use them in your slingshot to bombard two-legged/four-legged tomato thieves on the noggin.