Cherry picking we did go.

One of the things I love doing is picking fruit and vegetables from our garden. We have two wild cherry trees in our back garden. One of the previous owners of Pine Haven planted them and we are enjoying the success of the trees now. While the goats were here I didn’t have much chance with them as they ate the cherries, the leaves even the bark aswell. The trees have revived since the goats are gone. While I was picking the cherries I thought about the goats and wondering how they were doing. A few months ago now I sold the two boys to two separate homes – both good homes and I knew they would be better off that what I could offer them. Some days I miss them and others – like today while I’m picking the juicy cherries, I don’t. I’m yet to learn there right names but as far as I know now they are wild cherries. The students and I picked a basket full of them and today I’m going to try and make some jam from them. After researching jam making I discovered that they are medium pectin fruit which probably means I must add pectin in for the jelly to set. As this is my first time I’m making some jam I don’t expect much. If it turns out decent, it will be a good surprise but I’ll never know unless I try –right.
Well that turned out a disaster I’m afraid. I started taking out the stones and leaving the flesh in a cast iron pot. One of the cherries I picked up had a juicy worm wriggling around in it. Disgusted I tossed it aside and peered over to look at the already stoned fruit. Low and behold there in the pot were more juicy wriggling worms. What a disappointment! I’m going to have to find a way of stopping the worms?????? I tossed the cherries over the fence to the chickens and with them flying over the fence so did my idea of making jam from them.