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About me: A few years ago I bought a yard with a house on it. The yard hadn’t been touched in years. Bit by bit I’m convincing it to behave in a more neighborly fashion. I started my compost pile and went chem free after the first season.
Oh, and I have a STRONG dislike of Tree of Heaven. :)

My zone is: 5/6
GardenWeb Member: 2007-06-09
Commented: Fewer and fewer blooms each year Deja vu all over again, I have the same problem. It's been there for decades and bloomed beautifully for years. The past 4 or 5 years though, fewer and fewer buds form and many of them don't mature in...
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Commented: Black Forest Preserves I prefer to make it with tart cherries rather than sweet. There's something so luscious about the tart cherries with the chocolate that I don't get with the sweet cherries. I've given jars of it to ma...
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Commented: looking for tart cherries (Montmorency) There are a couple tart cherry orchards in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan about 35 miles from Windsor, Ontario. Most are u-pick but some do sell them already picked. I've never seen them sold pre-stoned...
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