Fruit rarely bears heavily two years in a row.
Here, in Saskatoon, we have the added complication that pollinators will not be around if the bloom happens during a cold snap. If that happens the cherry crop is poor and the Saskatoons are non-existent.
Having said that, the cherries are now so widespread that there is a surplus of cherries here for the asking, even in a low fruiting year.
My hunting partner's little trees are about 3 1/2 foot high in their third year. He has 20 plus pounds of cherries in the freezer to juice for jelly.
I picked two meat lugs of cherries at another friend's place last year, perhaps 50 pounds, so there is still plenty in the freezer for pies.
I have not had a fresh eating apple that I really liked on the Prairies, but I freeze sacks of pie apples, cut in wedges, to make apple crisp through the year.
If someone knows a crisp, juicy and sweet eating apple variety for the Prairies I would like to know about it.
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