leaf burrito

[quietann]

I did a little raking in the front yard, late this afternoon, and Ben did much more after I got distracted by stuff like fertilizing the blueberries and mulching my bush cherries, and *and and and she says with much excitement* discovered that my cherry tree *is* in fact blooming, and it is self-fertile, so I may get some cherries this summer! This is the tree that came to me as a 3 foot tall sapling with 3 branches and is now, 3 years later, taller than I am, with about 20 branches all of which have branches of their own.

And then I was tired and went inside, and Ben got a tarp to put all the raked leaves onto. We have found that dragging yard debris on a tarp is the easiest way to get it to the hill behind the barn, where we dump it.

Some time later, just as it was getting really dark, he came in and said he needed my help constructing a leaf burrito. If you can imagine a very large (8 by 12 foot) tarp rolled like a tortilla around so many leaves that it was seriously overstuffed, with those self-sticking ties from heads of lettuce holding it together, you get the picture. (And we did not, because it wsa too dark.)

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

ooh,think they might be sour cherries?I've been looking for someone with sour cherries to put up

[quietann.livejournal.com]

They are definitely "sour" cherries, specifically the Bali variety from St. Lawrence Nurseries (which has susboid connections). They are supposed to be pretty good for eating out of hand. I doubt that there will be enough to do anything with this year, but if the tree stays happy, in a few years I should have cherries for you.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

BTDT, got stuck by leaf edges. But think of all the lovely leaf mould you'll have in a few years.