Sweet Cherry


One of our most useful and popular fruits, Sweet Cherries are great fresh, dried, or frozen. The trees are also attractive with their profuse blooms in the spring and green summer foliage.
Cherries like full to 1/2 day sun, well drained soil and are hardy to -20°F (USDA zone 5). Bloom time is around April and ripening time is July with a yield of 50+ pounds per tree. Most sweet cherry trees are not self-fertile. Bacterial Canker can occasionally damage trunks or branches. Symptoms of this disease are dead branches and amber-colored sap exuding from the branches or trunk. Spraying with copper in the fall and early spring can help control Bacterial Canker. To repel birds, you can cover your trees with netting or use flash tape.