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Originally Posted by ciudad_del_norte
A sour cherry variety I assume? Not everyone likes them for fresh eating, but they often have a great flavour for other uses. I was discussing fruit with some folks from the Seattle area last year who were frustrated that they were unable to find sour cherries - even frozen. I thought that was kind of funny because there are lot of sour cherry trees in Edmonton, and they produce so heavily that most people don't know what to do with them. There are only so many cocktail cherries or pies one can reasonably eat. I've been experimenting with them for wine and cider though. A good way to make use of excess fruit.
There are some people successfully growing sweet cherries. I haven't bothered because I don't want to deal with the pollination - but they are usually around zone 5, which isn't unreasonable for a spot in the city.
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Yes it's a sour cherry tree. I can't remember the name of it, the cherries are not too bad, but not to my liking really.
Speaking of cider, we have an old apple tree in the back yard that produces mediocre apples, I gave several pails of them to a friend of ours last fall and she made cider with it and it turned out amazing! I still have my home brewing equipment from my homemade beer phase, I am going to make cider out of them next fall.