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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Grandma on July 05, 2007, 20:30:42

Title: Great year for pears!
Post by: Grandma on July 05, 2007, 20:30:42

Most years I could hold my pear harvest in one hand  - or two if I'm lucky!
Just have a look at this lot!

(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8276/pears12007zd1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


My little old Doyenne du Comice is absolutely groaning with fruit - I can't believe I'm actually wondering whether I should thin them out!

Despite the cold, wet, windy May/June/Julyweather, my fruit has never been better - monster blackcurrants; mammoth hauls of rapberries; big crops of red and white currants; lots of strawbs and super rhubarb. The freezer's almost full already and there are millions of Victoria plums and apricots coming along and what looks like being a bumper crop of blackberries on the way.

I'm so sad to read of all the veggies lost to the floods but I hope everyone else is having a 'fruitful' year.  :-*

Title: Re: Great year for pears!
Post by: saddad on July 05, 2007, 20:41:14

Yep looks promising here except we lost a lot of Apples and Plums to a late frost, Gages looking great though!
 8)

Title: Re: Great year for pears!
Post by: Emagggie on July 05, 2007, 21:37:26

The plums I scrumped last year look a little pathetic this year, I'm hoping things will look up soon as I have an attic full of jamjars. ::)

Title: Re: Great year for pears!
Post by: tricia on July 06, 2007, 23:26:39

These are my pears on a 'family' tree bought at Woolies and planted in Spring 2006. There are 14 Concorde, 7 Williams Bon Chretien and 5 Comice. If they all ripen I'll be well pleased.

Tricia