Sweet cherries with worms?

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Is there any way to rid large quanities of sweet cherries of worms to make them preservable? I have a whole tree of Royal Ann's and a grafted one with Bing, Royal Ann, and Black Lamberts. Both the Bing and Royal Ann have worms. The Black Lamberts do not. I would like to find some way to use these. I dry the Lamberts. They make exelent "rasins", but are hard to stone, because they are so small. I hate to see them just rotting on the ground if there is something that can be done with them.

-- Runners 3 (cmschram31357@mindspring.com), July 02, 2001

Answers

You could always feed them to chickens or pigs.

-- Sojourner (notime4@summer.spam), July 03, 2001.

What a shame to lose that much fruit. I can't remember the name of the critter that I think it is--plum cucurlio or something--but check out the GardensAlive! catalog. They carry the least toxic materials and I remember they had a product recommended for this problem. About once a year they have a really good secton in the catalog of pictures of diseases/pests with a description and remedies, not all of which requiring buying a product.

I bet those cherry "raisins" are wonderful. I might just have to add cherries to the yard after all.

-- marilyn (rainbow@ktis.net), July 04, 2001.


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