Cherries, apricots and tomatoes bought today from the Big Cherry orchard in Roxburgh. The cherries are way more delicious than I expected for this early in the season, a variety called ‘samba’. Central Otago, New Zealand.
Text and photos by Liz; Exploring Colour (2020)
Exploring Colour 
Yum!
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These look so delicious! We’ll have to wait a while for these fruits here, unless we’re willing to spend a fortune for them.
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Cherries are my favourite fruit – and this year my baby cherry tree had a nice crop. 🙂 Those look really yummy!
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They’re every bit as delicious as they look. Would gladly share with you if you were here 🙂
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Thanks Liz, hehe!
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Great to see 😊
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Yes 🙂
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You can’t beat summer fruit. It’s always best in season. We love strawberries but I won’t buy the ones that travel, all white and cardboardy inside. The fresh local are the best. Pretty much true for all produce.
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Strawberries start losing their sweetness as soon as picked so best as fresh as possible. We’ve grown our own in a couple of previous gardens, they’re wonderful straight from the plant. Do you grow any in your own garden?
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We do grow a few but don’t get the yield of large plump berries that we’d like so always purchase quart berry boxes from the country market or at roadside stands nearby.
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A secret I read early on was to mulch them with pine needles which we did from the get-go and we used to get good results. As far as I recall it’s best to replace the plants regularly too, like every 3 yrs or so.
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Ours grow under pine boughs that hang out over the garden so plenty of needles feed the soil. But we don’t switch out the plants and that is probably the difference.
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That’s a good place to grow them then, how fortuitous to have the trees there already! We used to have to make a special trip somewhere to collect the pine needles 🙂 Some new strawberry plants might do the trick then!
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They look totally yummy, especially the cherries. It’s really hard to find tasty tomatoes up here, only the tiny ones seem to have reasonable flavor. Lucky you.
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Yes, the cherries are especially good! they’re making me very happy 🙂
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Part of the delight of living in Central eh! Looking really good. Export quality? Are they exporting fruit this season?
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The cherries appear export quality Kay, really beautiful. I’ve no idea if they’ll be exporting this year. What a treat!
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