Garden

Canning/Freezing Cherries

It is the time of year that Cherry trees are blossoming and bearing their fruit!

Oh yum. My favorite thing to do is just eat the cherries straight off the tree, but come January when I want cherries that isn’t an option.

The next best thing? Freezing them!

1. You have to pit the cherries. Here I’m cutting the seeds out with a knife, but later we decided it was easier to squeeze the pit out in your hand over the bowl you’ll put the cherries in, that way that bowl collects the cherry juice also!

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Try our hand at a Green Thumb

Have you ever heard of people who have a “Green Thumb”?

That means they are good when it comes to plants, gardens, those types of things.

That bypassed me so bad…

I’ve killed Cactus… I’ve killed Bamboo, anything “easy” to keep alive… yeah I wasn’t born to keep it alive apparently.  That’s why in high school Ag classes and in college classes for my Ag degree I stayed more with the animals.  I can keep them alive 🙂

Well, last year PC (then my fiance PC) and I wanted to plant a garden, but with trying to plan a wedding and buying our first house and getting it ready to move into and everything, we just didn’t have enough time.  In fact, we have a cherry tree that we lost a lot of cherries to the birds :(… and apple trees that rotted toward the end and pear trees that toward the end got away from us.  Those latter two ripened about the time we got married/went on our honeymoon.

But this year, we’re bound and determined to not only have those fruit trees, but we’ve gone an extra step and planted a garden… WISH. US. LUCK.

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