It’s cherry season!

To understand how happy I am that cherry season is here, you need to know what happened last year in Niagara.  Last spring, actually.  We experienced weather in March that was beyond balmy.  It was downright warm.  So warm that we planted radishes and peas and harvested both before we normally would have planted them.  So warm that the trees were tricked into budding early.  Too early.  An unfortunate hard frost came through and wiped out the local cherry crop, along with a lot of the other tree fruits.  Cherries were hardest hit, though.  We managed a meagre basket, found early one morning at the market, and that was the beginning, middle and end of cherry season for 2012. Continue reading →