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How to grow loads of cherries, keep the trees from getting too big, and encourage fruit growth rather than leafy growth.

In Victoria’s Yarra Valley with a view of the Warramate Hills, 20,000 cherry trees are thriving. There are 38 different varieties that ripen at slightly different times, and Jane is here for picking time, which lasts from early November to late December.

Peter Foster has been a fruit grower all his working life and manages this 50-hectare property. As a commercial crop, they are known to be difficult to grow with too much rain causing the fruit to split. Cherry growers go to a lot of trouble to keep their cherries dry to prevent this water damage, even using helicopters to dry them off.

The cherries are picked by hand before moving to an automated sorting machine that washes the fruit and trims the stems. Cameras take 3 photos of each cherry to monitor colour, size and defects and they’re monitored by hand to ensure strict quality control. They are then packed into boxes, ready for sale.

Peter says the trees aren’t too thirsty, with a good drink once a week enough for the backyard cherry, and “you want it to stress a little bit to get the cherries on it… treat them a bit mean” as lots of water will produce lots of green growth but won’t encourage prolific fruiting. Chill factor is also important, with the trees requiring “700 hours of 8 degrees and lower” over winter to set fruit.

Cherry ‘Lapins’ is a good choice for the home gardener as it is self-pollinating, readily available, and easy to grow without a trellis in the right conditions. Peter recommends planting trees in July when they are dormant and giving a hard prune back to 5-centimetre-long branches to encourage shorter, bushier plants where you can reach the fruit.

In spring and autumn, they feed with pelletised chicken manure and cover the soil with tree prunings and straw mulch.



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Cherry ‘Lapins’ Prunus avium cv.


Filmed on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country / Yarra Valley, Victoria
Jane Edmanson





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I'm from Russia, I live in the Caucasus, in Ossetia.

You are wonderful people, doing a wonderful job and living in a wonderful country. I am also a gardener and I have a peach. This year I want to plant cherries. Thank you for the video!

shrek
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5 years ago I lived in Lilydale 5 minutes away from there beautiful cherry trees I used to drive past them every morning I❤🍒🍒

ianh
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What "cracked" me up was when he said "You can't taste the crack" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

DkSkullGear
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The Dark red cherries are the best. Crisp, sweet, crunchy. So good.

jingyun
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I grow my cherry trees bursting with fruit .... the birds and squirrels love me for it! ;-)

justgivemethetruth
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Those plants are loaded with cherries, lovely

AAHomeGardening
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I love Australia just as much as I love cherries

lassila
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so excited to see what type of environment is required for cherry growth

kalerafruitfarms
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Man, if I was picking I'd eat them all! As I did when raspberry picking as a kid in the school holidays, I ate all my profits!

juanitarichards
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I live in the Manchester area in England and I grow cherries on my allotment, but I have found the best way to keep the birds off is to grow them inside a polytunnel and choose varieties on the dwarfing 'Gisela 5' rootstock. I have the old variety 'Early Rivers' raised in the Victorian period - it is a very large red cherry and very tasty, totally unlike anything you buy in the shops.

duncanrobinson
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I wish to have similar cherry farm.. It's too good😍😍😍

nikeetadethe
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Omg!!! No wonder cherries are expensive, need a helicopter to blow dry the trees!!😊😎😀interesting!!!! Love it

TrinaMCay
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Forget about it. Look at those trees. Absolute heaven.

rctaz
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were they seriously flying a chopper under powerlines just to dry the cherries abit xD omg

aidanhart
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I don't know why, but she looks like her Majesty.

STNG-
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Cherry fruit is very unique fruit and your form very interesting and beautiful

Karim-enon
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Nice gardening vlog, thank you for sharing video, big like1

VanajaManiKitchen
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This is brilliant plans/business to develop. Beautiful for the eyes to see, good for the environments and healthy for our diet. Wish the government fund small businesses to grow fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and beans instead of livestocks.
From animal lover, vegan and love nature.

wawawillegers
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would love to camp there for a weekend, nothing better than a bing cherry

kentate
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Good information feel sorry for the losses he suffers

desmondou