2 bushels of Bartlet pears, and 5 eating apples. no not 5 bushels just 5 apples.
the wasps seem to have attacked most of them.....
Don't ask me what kind, it was just a seed that grew and fruited about 20 years ago and it still going, nice white flesh, sweet, juicy, eat only, don't last long, best to eat straight off the tree.
qahtan
That's a good crop of pears, which incidently we know as Williams pears here. I remember eating them straight off the tree when I was a youngster as we had two in the garden. What do you do with all yours?
Shame about the apples! Wasps have been a big problem over here this year as several people here have mentioned. That sounds like my kind of apples...crunchy, juicy and sweet!
I'm the other way round.. tripping over apples but few pears... several laden trees though on the site so there'll be plenty at the Open Day... :)
What open day is that, think I may have missed the posts, posts, post, posts. ;D ;D Better give people another quick reminder. Something ate all my lovely Bramley apples, one day OK and next day all pecked or eaten or both. Picked the ones that were left and gave some to my friend and she rang me and said that when she cut them open, had to cut a lot out. A bit embarrassing as I thought I had given her the best ones. Peeled all mine and cooked them and froze them, some were a bit rotten and it is early from Bramley apples. My pears are dropping of the tree and they are not ripe, perhaps they are cooking pears, but they are very hard. Bought the tree from Morrisons so can't remember the variety, at that time thought pears were pears, and was excited at getting a cheap tree. It may well get chopped down this year but may give it one more year. Two coxes apples and one eaten, wasps or insects or birds or both.
A lot of our produce is given away, but we also have our fill of what ever fresh, also we poach what ever fruit in a light syrup and freeze it apples , apricots, pears etc. all freeze well, and we eat/use it through the year. We always pick our pears quite hard, in fact too hard to eat, have to let soften a couple days. Don't let them get soft before you pick them or pick them up.
We have never had such an invasion of wasps before. blooming things, Gerry is still picking blackberrys but he say's there are loads of wasps round them.
qahtan