The cherry harvest started this week in the Freiburg region. Because of the frosty nights in April and hungry crows, 2023 will probably not be a good cherry year for local fruit growers.
A few days ago the antifreeze was at the Sehringer fruit farm in Schallstadt-Mengen. “With the early and middle cherry varieties we have losses of up to 75 percent,” says Kurt Sehringer. With the late varieties, the damage is somewhat less, but still considerable. The rain in May did the remaining fruit good. According to Sehringer, the dry and sunny weather now during the harvest is ideal. On the one hand, because when it’s dry …
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