Workers wrap a rolled-up rain cover in black plastic to protect it through the winter. It remains attached to a cable above the tree row. Geraldine Warner To grow cherries in Europe without rain covers is difficult because of the high risk of fruit cracking and bird damage. Covers are expensive, but it’s an investment growers have to make in order to grow cherries in wet climates, observes Will ­Sibley, chair of East Malling Trust in the United Kingdom. Sibley and a group of members of the International Fruit Tree Association visited the orchard of Jaco Elenbaas at Lewedorp in […]