When it comes to growing a cherry tree in your yard, not just any cherry seeds will do. The cherries' freshness, locality, ...

Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley. But extreme heat conditions at the end of June damaged many of those ...

Hannah Westly, 18, picks Rainier cherries Tuesday morning at the OSU Research Farm off Peoria road. Three varieties of cherry trees are growing in greenhouse tunnels as part of a five year ...

Q. Every year my mature Rainier cherry tree gets very small green cherries and then 90 percent of them die off. Any idea what is causing this? — Harry Stachowiak, Schaumburg A. Rainiers are a… ...

That’s a Rainier with about 23 percent sugar content, which is supersweet. So don’t let those blemishes keep you away. Keep your Rainiers ice cold. Handle them gently — and enjoy.

Don Sr., who is 83 and retired, planted the first family grove of Rainier trees 29 years ago. Don III, who is 27 (and a new father), will take over when the 53-year-old Don Jr. decides to hang up ...

Workers prune Rainier cherry trees in an orchard owned by Dahlin Farming near Zillah Thursday, March 20, 2025. Evan Abell / Yakima Herald-Republic ...

Out of the thousand known cherry types, Smith has more than 300 varieties, in various forms, from bud wood, to bareroot in winter, to containerized cherry trees later in the year.

Rainier cherries with Little Cherry Disease hang from trees next to an area where infected trees have already been cut down in an orchard owned by Valicoff Fruit Co. on Friday, July 26, 2019, near ...

Until 1994, some 40 years after the Rainier cherry was bred, domestic tonnage did not exceed 2,000; last summer, that figure had quadrupled to more than 8,000.