pear time

[rockriver]

the pear trees are producing.
it was a wet spring, but we've had a very very dry summer...

the pear trees are loaded...
I don't know the names... we call them Bartlett pears and apple pears.
the bartletts are normal pear shaped
the apple pears are rounded like an apple (but bigger than apples this year! and sweeter tasting than the bartletts!)

the little lady is steady cutting pears up and putting large pieces in pints and quarts... she calls these salad pears...
this process works faster than preserves and takes less sugar...

one reason I like pear trees is they are more resistant to insects for some reason, more hardy, and seem to produce every year...
getcha some!!

lol.. there is an old goat nearby... we take the peelings to the goat.. she sees me coming and heads my way, licking her chops.
she is now waddling she is so bloated... no sense at all... her gut is bulging... I've been tossing old watermelons to her... she loves them
but I think she likes the pear peelings better... lol... pears have a medicinal effect on people... I suspect they will on billie too!
she got to be blowing pills! ebola, isis, Obama, taxes, unemployment, inflation, mooslims, rioting and lootin' ... all these and many more factors are serious..
it's good to laugh. even if it's just a goat gorging herself!

[ssonb]

OH YEA!!! we have two trees a D'anjou and an old style Kefer or mule pear. we planted the so they would produce a cross between the small very hard mule pear and a medium softer style so when you make some pear preserves it will not mush up after you process..Pear preserves are like gold I have had people almost fight over a jar!!! MY Gandma showed me how to make the stuff..

[motesjm]

Pears are definitely hi yield low effort in our neck of the woods. I planted Kieffers along my pasture fences just for the cows to have a treat. Not too shabby for the human folk either.

[ssonb]

I checked them yesterday and they are still a little green...anuther kupla weeks might just doit

[EX121]

I picked 3, 5 gal pails yesterday, they were falling of the tree. I wait until they finished ripening and then can them in water.

[rockriver]

we've got 3 types of pears...
I don't know names.
1. look like traditional pears... smooth skin and pear shape.
2 we call them apple pears... extremely tasty and very moist to eat.
3. knotty and hard pears... they were the last to get ripe... but their season is still hanging in there!!
got some off the ground today and a few still in the tree!

get ya some pears! fruit for over 3 months!

[sniper69]

My pear trees were planted this year so didn't produce, but I did meet a nice gentleman that I worked out a trade to pick both of his pear trees clean. A lot of pears to say the least. I've made pear butter and also canned pears in a medium syrup. I still have a bunch and am going to make pear wine. Some of the nicer ones left will go into a "pear honey" and if any are left after that - will go into a small batch of a different type of pear butter. They are at that very ripe stage on my back deck right now, so I have to finish them up sooner rather than later. It helped I picked them when they were borderline on the tree. If I had to do it over I would have had a couple sleepless nights and got them all processed sooner. But the pear wine will make a nice treat. :)

I have some apples from a local (enough) orchard (my apple trees are first year trees as well). I had picked apples and already processed them into sauce and apple pie filling, but got a few of the late season varieties (stayman winesap and golden supreme (I think that was the name - golden was in the name, lol), those will more than likely all be dehydrated. It worked out good last Friday, that the orchard was close to where I had to pick up the half beef. Killed two birds with one stone so to speak. :)