I like a nice pear

zaphod

it begins ...



4 on day one, 24 on day two.  About 150 to 200 on the tree this year. 

Gulfcoastguy

Pear brandy?

zaphod

not really a brandy guy, but pear pie, grilled with ice cream, grilled with blue cheese.

My mom used to preserve pears in canning jars.  This is a bumper crop so you never know.

Canugghead

I like a nice pair too  Wish we planted a couple of fruit trees when we bought this house 3.5 decades ago.

zaphod

we planted a pear, an apple in the back and a plum in the front. that would be about 13 or 14 years ago. The plum caught a fungus and we cut it down. The apple suffered until some competing landscape trees were removed and I gave it a couple of good prunings. now it is loaded up and starting to challenge the pear.

Legume

Squirrels get the best of my apple tree, they take a bite or two and then my dog eats them as they rot if I don't get to them first.

Color me jealous, I love pears.

caliking

Color me very jealous. I'd love to have fresh fruit from our own trees. 

When we moved into the house, I asked caliqueen to plant some fruit trees (she loves to garden, but I don't want to eat flowers). She said they would take too long... 10+ yrs... to bear fruit.

And, here we are 15yrs later. Without any fruit trees!

zaphod

sounds like a good enough reason for a visit. 

Of course pears need 2 weeks on the counter before they reach perfect ripeness, only to pass that stage 20 minutes later. so right now they are rocks.

GrateEggspectations

Canugghead said:

I like a nice pair too  Wish we planted a couple of fruit trees when we bought this house 3.5 decades ago.

This was my first thought also. Either us Canadians are absolute comedic masters, or we have tunnel vision. Possibly, both. 

zaphod

we Canadians are extremely witty. don't tell the others. then they'll want to be witty as well.

Legume

Just too polite to not laugh at each others wit.

Botch

zaphod said:

Of course pears need 2 weeks on the counter before they reach perfect ripeness, only to pass that stage 20 minutes later. so right now they are rocks.

Wow, so not only are pears shaped like avocados… 

zaphod

picked/pulled the last of the Anjou off the tree yesterday. Total for the year: 278 harvested. 

plus one to that darn squirrel.

Gulfcoastguy

Only one? 

Canugghead

Darn squirrel: I like a nice pear too

zaphod

Gulfcoastguy said:

Only one? 

one that I know of

Gulfcoastguy

Pear stuffed squirrel braised in white wine.

zaphod

well, I did yell "I may not eat you, but will HAPPILY cook you for someone else" at the varmint. so there is that.

Gulfcoastguy

That reminds me. I found Raichlen’s cookbook on grilling vegetables in the discount section of the bookstore. I paid $5.50.