Titanarum

I planted my first cherry tree five years ago. It is called Stella and is a red self fertile dessert cherry. Last year I had my first fruits. Only 6 stayed on to maturity and of those I only had two thanks to the determined cunning and sheer weightiness of the pigeons feeding off our plots. Despite using netting they still managed to sit on one of the branches till it broke off and the fruits were free to get their beaks into. I wouldn’t bat an eyelid if they got stuck in the netting and died a long drawn out painful death (that was obviously my subconscious and base instinct talking and I’d never follow through in real life, it is only how I feel.). Anyway, the two I tasted were out of this world. Unsurpassed sweetness and juiciness. And the largest, I kid you not, was the size of a walnut. So this year I’ve decide to wrap the sets of fruit individually in small pieces of netting. The kind that comes with oranges, packs of garlic and potatoes. And I will disguise the fruits as best I can without barring the sun’s light, so necessary for ripening and flavour. Never again will a pigeon or any other bird for that matter, share my cherries.