On Friday, Mansfields took part in the 77th Cherry and Soft Fruit Show at the County Agricultural Showground in Detling and we were awarded 1st prizes in 5 categories, 2nd prize in 4 categories and 3rd prize in 5 categories. We have also won the JP Distributors Bowl-Highest points all classes and the Fyffes monro group bowl- for the Highest points collected in the categories in Division 1
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Hello, lovely blog. I love the detail. Just wondering what your colney cherry yields were like in 2007 compared to previous years. I ask because I heard that the bad weather caused some run-off and splitting.
Overall we had an average to a good yield in 2007 but we lost about 15% of our crop due to the very wet season. Luckily 90% of our main varieties, including Colney, are grown under rain covers so the fruit quality did not suffer greatly from the difficult season. We have managed a consistent yield over the last few years by intensive (selective) manually based pruning, feeding as well as investing in rain covers.
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