Pear Tree!

[dennishoddy]

We had a pear tree at our home for almost 30 years that put on pears like crazy. Unfortunately for us, deer love pears too. We would see them on their hind legs flailing the tree to get more to drop. We got our share and let them get theirs.
Unfortunately two years ago it got some sort of disease and died. Stump came out this spring.

 

[swampratt]

Ripe about deer season.
I love all fruit and pears.
Durian is not bad either

 

[SoonerP226]

Durian is not bad either

Isn't durian the one that stinks so bad that the trains in SE Asia have signs prohibiting people from bringing them aboard?

 

[SoonerP226]

I love me some pears. The big old pear tree in the back yard is one thing I'm going to miss after we sell my folks' house.

We have a Bradford pear at work. It provides shade, but that's about all it's good for. Every few years it drops these nasty, sticky, useless dwarf fruits, so you have to take your vehicle to the car wash to get rid of them.

I almost forgot--Bradford pears are also really good at one other thing. Breaking in a high wind, or after an ice storm, or when they feel particularly pouty...

 

[swampratt]

Isn't durian the one that stinks so bad that the trains in SE Asia have signs prohibiting people from bringing them aboard?

Yes that is the one.
Tastes a little like banana

 

[Shadowrider]

Had a pear tree in the back yard my entire childhood from about 6. I have no idea how many rotting pears I hauled to the curb. Grandma would come over occasionally and get some to put up and make pies with.

IDK what variety it was but it was different from the store bought variety, they were smaller and always quite hard regardless of ripeness. They tasted good though. It made way too many for us to use them all. Like really a lot too many. That tree died about 10 years ago. It was quite old I guess, it was there when mom & dad bought the house in the '60s. I do like the large, soft, juicy ones.

 

[rickm]

Mom use to puree them and freeze whatever kind of pears we had and then spice them up and make fried pies out of them thru out the year and most people that ate them thought they was eating apple fried pies cause of how she spiced them up like apples, she always made sure i had fried pies of some sort on hand every weekend i went to visit.

 

[turkeyrun]

Love pears, so do cows, deer, squirrels, possum.

My pear tree is loaded down, at the moment. Soon as they begin to ripen, the squirrels will pick it clean, in a day.

My sister had a huge pear tree, at the corner of the carport. Pears would drop 40' and hit that tin. Pears all over the drive. Sister and B-i-L neither liked Pears.
We picked 8 bushels and made pear butter. B-i-L tried it and said, "well, shiite, i shouldn't have cut it down. That's good stuff."

 

[DRC458]

Love pears. And, there's not a lot of fruits I truly like!

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

Score! My wife’s parents have some pear trees. We like to eat the pretty ones and can the ugly ones like apple sauce. Yumm