NFriday wrote:I was at the Jewel on Chicago Ave. in Evanston today, and they had Washington cherries for $5.99.
Katie wrote:Erratic spring weather has wiped out most of this spring's display of blossoms on Japanese cherry trees in Jackson Park in downtown Chicago, in what the Tribune describes as "a big blow for cherry blossom fans."
Cathy2 wrote:Drove around the Japanese garden at the Museum of Science of Industry yesterday, I could see native Red Buds, but no cherry blossoms.
G Wiv wrote:Cathy2 wrote:Drove around the Japanese garden at the Museum of Science of Industry yesterday, I could see native Red Buds, but no cherry blossoms.
The Bride and I attended an event at the Museum of Science of Industry Saturday night. As we drove up Ellen commented on the lack of cherry blossoms
Sue makes for an absurdly cool dining companion.
tjr wrote:+1 on the Jewel $1.99 cherries. They were large, meaty and evenly ripe. Mariano's had some pretty good ones as a $1.99 special a few weeks ago, but the Jewel cherries were even better.
NFriday wrote:I was at a Meijer's in Benton Harbor, Michigan on Saturday, and they had California cherries for $3.99 a pound. My sister has upick black and rainer cherries for $4.99 a pound currently right now. She was doing lots of upick business this last weekend. I picked four pounds of cherries yesterday to take back with me, and they were really good. My brother in law says he currently has 31 different varieties of cherries. They just started upicking sour cherries today too. Their sweet cherries at their fruit stand are $5.95 a pound. Their sour cherries are $1.49 a pound. They are going to have upick cherries for another week. They are located right off of exit 39 the Coloma exit on I94.
NFriday wrote:You got enough cherries that you did not have to pay the picking fee. My sister started charging a picking fee, because a family of five would eat cherries off of the tree nonstop, and then would only end up with two pounds to take with them, and so they would eat for free way more than they would pay for.
tjr wrote:79 cents/lb if you're willing to brave Jerry 's Fruit & Garden. The Washington cherries they had for 99 cents last week were quite good, large, ripe and meaty.
In usual Jerry's fashion a customer used their cart to violently ram my cart out of their way. Fortunately this time I wasn't standing behind it. On the plus side Jerry's had a huge selection of 4" plants for $1.50 ($5 to $6 elsewhere) along with the biggest chenille plants I've ever seen for $10.
NFriday wrote:Concerning Jerry's... A lot of the produce that they sell is stuff that Jewel and Mariano's will not sell because it is past its prime.