May 15th 2011 Issue

Growing cherries on new systems

Researchers across the country are looking at what works best in their regions.

On March 30 of this cool spring, the year-old test planting was showing no sign of breaking dormancy. Sweet cherry growers are in transition from orchard systems they know—and don’t like much—to new systems they don’t know, but hope they’ll like better. Some things they do know. Trees will be smaller, probably on a Gisela rootstock but possibly others. Pruning will be different. Trees might be freestanding, or they might be on a trellis. They might look very much like the new apple orchard systems—or they might look very different, as with the Upright Fruiting Offshoot concept. As growers ponder […]

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May 15, 2011

Production, New Developments, Cherries, Richard Lehnert

Richard Lehnert

After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index

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