On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 03:03:33 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
wrote:

>
>"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
>> How fortunate you are. A bad spring in the Pacific NW has impacted the
>> crop size and subsequently made prices out of sight. The price is so high
>> I can't remember how much it is--I just crossed cherries off of the
>> shopping list this year--maybe $4 a pound.
>
>I just paid $1.69 on sale this week Regular price is $4 here in CT. They
>are nice sized, juicy, really a good buy right now. Not sure of where they
>were grown.
>

$1.99 lb on sale and $2.99 when not on sale for local cherries in
Albertsons stores in Boise, Idaho. They're all expensive but
Albertsons is extra high. I've not bought any, won't from a grocery
store. Trying to get my niece to pick up some since she lives right
in the area they're grown...but that's 40 miles from where I live and
she doesn't come in often. Crows have been eating the cherries from
the neighbor's tree..house is empty at the moment.

I'm homebound or I'd just take a drive out and get some myself, but
alas, not something I can do. Even if I could pick cherries the ones
next door would have cherry fly maggot in 'em. That's why I've never
planted a tree. It's unfortunate how a lot of people when they buy a
house, plant fruit trees, but don't take care of them..don't clean up
the fallen fruit so basically make a nursery for fruit pests. Used to
be you could grow cherries without spraying in this area ..until the
population went up and with it the cherry fly and coddling moth
nurseries were set up all over.

Janice