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Some familiar lines about cherries are fair. Some compress a disagreement, or a bit of advice, into a single tidy sentence. Try these, then read why.
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You always need two cherry trees for a crop.
Acid cherries and tart cherries are two different plants.
The easiest way to start is to plant a stone from a supermarket cherry.
Cherries will not crop on a shady or north-facing wall.
Prune cherries in winter, like apples.
A tree on Gisela 5 is always 3–4 metres, and every official page agrees.
A sweet cherry in a UK garden will reach eleven metres, as a matter of course.
You can put whole cherries, stones and all, into a smoothie.