Although the cool weather has delayed the ripening of their cherries, owners George and Marietta Khoury have just begun picking.

Mrs Khoury said the cool weather has actually worked in their favour as the cherries would have split in the recent storms had they been ripe.

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"The saving grace this year has been the cold weather," she said.

"Because it's cold the cherries are later, they're not ripening, and because they're not ripening their not splitting.

"When you get a lot of rain, when they spilt, they can go moldy and if one goes moldy then it'll attach itself to another that will go moldy and then you get a whole bunch that will go moldy."

Though they're not quite cherry ripe just yet, Mrs Khoury is expecting they will have plenty of cherries for Christmas.

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Last year their season finished early in December due to a combination of the bats and people coming and picking the cherries before they were ripe.

This year that hasn't been the case and Mrs Khoury is hoping the sun graces their farm with it's presence and the cherry's begin to thrive.

"We need the sun because if you don't get the sun you don't get the sugar in the fruit," she said.

"You need to have that sun on the fruit to give it the colour as well, and now that the rain's been here they'll get the size and now we want the ripeness, that's the sun's job."

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It was the advice from an agricultural research manager back in 1985 when they purchased the property that has allowed the Khoury's to produce cherries every year.

The secret was farming a large variety of cherries so that there would always be some that survived extreme weather patterns and they would always have some to sell.

Mr and Mrs Khoury have just begun picking their supreme variety, with their rons variety next to go from bush to bucket.

Despite the late start to the season for Hillview Cherry Farm, Mrs Khoury said they have still had people visiting.

Once the cherries ripen and fill the trees people will be able to pick their own.

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