You know why everything is early this year. Our Heavenly Father is blessing his children with abundance and time to prepare and preserve our harvests ahead of the storm. God Bless yall.
Danny and Wanda you guys are such awesome people, Thank you for all you do share . I understand you have to take care of your homestead. Share videos when you can cause we will still be here .Thanks Wanda for sharing all the good things to make from the pears. Wish I lived closer cause I would love to come over and help you with your canning . God bless and take care ! Now off to start my day ,canning beans and potatoes . 😁
I recently joined your patreon because I love your honesty no matter what anyone thinks. You both are down to earth and I just love your channel. You both are honest, hardworking, caring homesteaders full of lots of hands on wisdom.
Sure you right, it's hard work and you gotta be just as 'committed' as to any other profession. That's why I don't believe 'farming' or 'homesteading' is for everyone! Everyone can grow something but not everyone has what it takes to manage a 'full fledged' farm. Hats off to those of you who do it! Be blessed!
Wanda, you mentioned that one can use them as a mock peach cobbler. If you love blackberries, mix some pears with the blackberries for a cobbler, they complement each other wonderfully. I used a little cinnamon and nutmeg, and reminded me of spiced pears (or spiced apples) except a vivid purple color to the pears, instead of red. The blackberry/pear cobbler goes wonderful with vanilla icecream as well.
Danny you don't have to apologize for putting off some videos to get that work done. You be care standing on that tractor front end loader. I think that pear can tool is an interesting idea. May the Lord watch over you both and your homestead during this tropical storm.
Thanks Wanda and Danny. Can on a stick was the way my daddy harvested too. He always said that when you get a big harvest like that it would be 1 - 3 years before you got another decent harvest. Same with the nut trees when they produced heavily. It turned out that way back then. But the way things are now I'm not sure. I believe that in the latter days the trees are confused as to the seasons which would explain the untimely blooming and producing that we have seen this year. Well, time's a wasting so I've got to get busy. Much Love
I just watched David DuByne's latest video. He reported that the locusts that were in S. America are now in central America. He's predicting they'll get to the U.S. by late August or so, so It's probably a big blessing if crops are ripening early this year.
Morning Y'all ! We understand! As much as we enjoy morning videos, we just hit the play list and watch past ones we haven't seen ! Hope you have a wonderful day !
I read up about our pears and Google says they produce heavy one year, less so the next year and light the third year, then repeats the cycle. In my pears, Ive seen this is true.
Pears falling off here too, the tree by my shed leaves are already turning red and falling off, next sign I look for is the spider/naked ladies lilies to start popping up. Early fall on the way
@@rebeccazody1278 I just seen some yesterday, we live not too far from Danny and Wanda, it's been like fall here the last couple days, hot but low humidity.
I can relate to it has to be done now.... and folks that have never done this kind of thing often don't understand. I sell garden produce.....someone jus called and didn't understand that because of a late spring and the drought things are weeks behind....last year this time I was loaded with all kinds of produce.....it coming but it's a full time job watering. Hang in there everyone😊
What an awesome harvest, y'all! The pear trees I planted 3 years ago are far from producing. Hope I make it to my mid 80's. because I might have to wait that long to enjoy any grown on my own homestead!
Wow that's really cool you are getting soo many nice pears off you all's trees.I like the can on the long stick process for picking.We love the bartlet pears.Be safe in the storms coming.Love,Pia&Family.♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡.........
That is cool that you all have a ton of pears. I guess that is how it is with gardening, sometimes you win and sometimes you win big! The can stick is smart. Looks like that worked really well. I know it makes me sad that you can't get them all. - Liz 👍💯🌴😀🌸🌻🌴
I want to thank you for always having good volume on your vlog, a lot of vlog are hard to hear. Danny you speak load and clear as i was told to do in boot camp. I guess you are doing what my drill instructor said and sounding off like you have a pear. I appreciate your site you have good informative content.
What a great idea with that new tool! I'm so grateful for how God is blessing all your hard work this year. It's so wonderful to see you have such a wonderful harvest and know that you will be taking care of it, preserving, and enjoying it all.
I have no pears or apples. While all was in full bloom we had 23 degree temps here where I am in Indiana. I did not get any apples or pears. All the blooms frozen. I can almost taste your beautiful pears.
If you grow zucchini you can also make mock apple sauce, and mock apple pie filling which I will be canning this year. Last year I made mock pineapple but I shredded it fine so I can use it in breads, cakes. I have also made mock crab cakes which were amazing found recipe on line. I have seen recipes for mock jelly with zucchini and jello.
I'll take a box of pears off your hands if the shipping isn't a fortune! I'm in Ohio! I'd love to can up a few quarts and I'd like to try my hand at spiced pears like mom and grandma made...yum
No problem Danny and Wanda, we will be right here when you can get some vids out. Those of us that are loyal subs won't go anywhere if you unable to get vids edited and uploaded right now. We know you have a lot to do around your place so take your time we arn't going anywhere. Much love from So.Cal.💟
I’m in Middle Georgia, and my Hood pear also ripened several weeks early. Last year was our first crop, this year the tree is so loaded that the branches all bent to the ground, one branch snapped, and we figure about 300 pears easy. This is after deer ate the fruit off a few lower branches, and new fruit is growing right back on those limbs.
I read a couple of people think they might be Keifer pears. Others call them sand pears, canning pears, winter pears. All say great for CANNING, one woman makes chutney with them. 😁
I use a can on an extendable paint roller extension pole that someone lost off their truck. It goes from 10 feet to 20 feet. I used to use a light bulb changing cup but the can works a little better.
Thank you for taking the time to share wi us. Harvesting has a window of time. If you miss it, you may loose some of your crop. Pears are a good filler. If your making jams or jellies a you don’t have quite enough fruit for your recipe, pears make a great substitute. Mix it with apple to make apple sauce.
You’ve probably got a Bartlett :) moon glow is its pollinator :) I have two bartletts and I’m gonna get a moon glow this next spring ! What a crop! I can’t wait till mine start producing !
Your sand pears sound like Kieffer pears, a popular old variety that was a cross between Asian sand pears and European Bartletts. Here in Canada, I too am finding things are ripening or finishing up faster this year than usual, probably due to the higher than normal heat this summer. My apple trees have few apples on them but the Bartlett pear tree is loaded this year.
That first pear tree looks like a anjou pear . The second one looks like a Bosc pear . They are a hard pear . I have a stick with a material bag and cage that holds a few pears for picking up high . I love fruit trees but I hated picking up the fruit off the ground every day .
Spend enough time up North in the bitter cold and the heat/humidity is a like a nice soothe sauna. My last winter in Western NY was the winter where Mexico NY received 20 feet of snow over night burying houses, where i lived it was just 10 feet over night. Keep in mind we already had 5 feet of snow accumulated so I woke up to my 2nd story bedroom window having snow covering it halfway up. I had to tunnel out of the house and then dig out elderly neighbors. My first 10 years in the south, on the hottest most humid days, even days where the actual Temperature had exceeded 100 I was out there in direct sun light digging trenches or doing other high physical jobs. I had a Neighbor as me if I was crazy and I said "Nope, I am just glad its not snowing" After 10 years my body finally adjusted to normal and I can't work in the heat. I spent the better part of 25 in those long cold dark winters before I could return to NC where I was born. The heat may be uncomfortable but that cold hurts.
I lived way up near Malone, NY for 10 yrs in a cabin. We used to stop at Mexico at the large truck stop for gas and food on our way back home from visiting family back in PA. I KNOW about that winter cold, it tries to kill you. I moved back to PA in 93 and I do not miss those winters!
@@saddleridge4364 You lived where the cold is actually bitter cold, where I lived between Buffalo and Rochester isn't actually that cold its just dark (more overcast skies than Seattle) with feet of lake effect snow at a time between dark gloomy yet balmy days. You are far more familiar with cold than I am. But it was cold enough for me where I lived to have an extreme hatred for being cold. Summer as I consider summer to be would be short. Maybe 2 months of good summer weather from June 15th to August 15th. We had warm weather outside of that span but you often needed a coat a night. I remember being cold before school started in the fall. Malone is probably closer to Montreal than NYC, it gets very cold up there. . The funny thing about that winter where Mexico NY had all that snow, it was a warm winter following a very hot summer and Lake Ontario was very warm as a cold front went over it creating all that snow. But even a warm winter up north is too cold for me, I headed south where we get a week of cold (below 20) a year, if we get it that cold at all. If I have to or choose to live up north again I am building me a geothermal greenhouse and living in it. A guy in Nebraska did that and he grows Oranges year round there.
Nice pears. We didn't get any fruit this year. Bugs got to our peaches and plums lost all their blossoms before fruit set. We were thrilled with the rain we got from hannah our entire property was dry and crispy except where we have irrigation. Rain was not too heavy just a moderate rain for 2 days off and on.
Mrs. Wanda, Mr Danny have you tried dehydrated pears? They are my favorite😍 worth a try and something else to do with them. Oh pear cobbler.... now I need to try that!
In our area there are pear trees but the pears never ripen but I will stay where I am as I would not survive the heat where you guys and others are located.
YES! I thought that too as I work in a grocery store and they don't really look like a Bartlett. I love eating D'Anjou pears. There are SO MANY varieties of pears too! My uncle had two pears trees that he let us pick from and can all we wanted, but sadly I don't remember what kind they were. I was young and didn't know a difference then, only that they tasted good all winter long. I do know I don't care for Bosc at all.... Uncle also had a huge grape arbor and we got all those grapes too. We were SO blessed and never wanted for food while I was growing up. All homemade bread, pancakes, muffins, etc. too. I still bake from scratch to this day and always will.
We have an asian pear tree.. I wish we liked them.. they are individually wrapped and cost a small fortune at the grocery store, so it's a real sin that we don't care for them! We get such pretty white blossoms that last only a few days each spring, and fruit on the tree every other year it seems... it grows very tall and fast if we don't prune it hard, and right now it has really gotten away from us the last few years... not sure what to make of it or how to use them that we'd enjoy and like them better. Made applesauce once with them, won't do that again. We usually end up tossing them into the woods, feeling guilty, and hope the bears don't smell them and visit! We both love Bosc pears though... Good luck with the weather coming, hoping it passes you by and it cools off soon. We are absolutely broiling up here in the northeast as well.
Those sand pears look just like the asian pear that i have in Ohio. I peel and quarter them and let them sit in water for 1 day then blend for pear butter
Mr. Danny...I collect pears for canning at my great grandparents old homestead. They are the sand pears I’m guessing??? They have been growing on that piece of property for maybe a good 75 years or so. Maybe more??? Anyway the question I have is about them being so HARD....what causes that? They are somewhat smaller but they are delicious cook as spiced pears like Mrs. Wand said. They are also just now starting to blush. When is the right time to pick them for perfection?
The variety is why they're hard. When you're thumb is pressed around the stem and it feels a little soft they are ready to pick and let set a couple days.
I have a quick question. On fig trees can I top the plant? Its only on its third year(it was a 1 foot twig with 2 leaves when I rescued it from the store) and I have to grow in a pot as its too cold in the winter here but it grew straight up the first two years and is quite spindly. This year the bottom 2/3 of the trunk sprouted many branches and its a nice little bushy plant now. But I'd like to clip it to bring that sparse spindly top off. I've never grown a fig before and watching you prune all your young fruit trees I think taking that top 1/3 of the tree off would probably make the plant a lot more healthy. I will be potting and hopefully rooting what I cut off. It's an Olympia fig if the type matters. Thanks for any advice you can give. Or from any other comments from other poster/ members
Download a plant id app. Will help identify your pear tree. I spend hours in my yard using this app on everything. Loads of fun aside from serving an actual purpose.
Another question I have a five year old northern fig it produces in sept I cut it back just before frost and surround it with straw. This year it has grown to 20 feet tall can’t reach figs what would happen if I topped each branch
You know why everything is early this year. Our Heavenly Father is blessing his children with abundance and time to prepare and preserve our harvests ahead of the storm. God Bless yall.
Danny and Wanda you guys are such awesome people, Thank you for all you do share . I understand you have to take care of your homestead. Share videos when you can cause we will still be here .Thanks Wanda for sharing all the good things to make from the pears. Wish I lived closer cause I would love to come over and help you with your canning . God bless and take care ! Now off to start my day ,canning beans and potatoes . 😁
I recently joined your patreon because I love your honesty no matter what anyone thinks. You both are down to earth and I just love your channel. You both are honest, hardworking, caring homesteaders full of lots of hands on wisdom.
Sure you right, it's hard work and you gotta be just as 'committed' as to any other profession. That's why I don't believe 'farming' or 'homesteading' is for everyone! Everyone can grow something but not everyone has what it takes to manage a 'full fledged' farm. Hats off to those of you who do it! Be blessed!
This is the feast before the famine. We must take advantage of it and save it for hard times. I love pears.
Wanda, you mentioned that one can use them as a mock peach cobbler. If you love blackberries, mix some pears with the blackberries for a cobbler, they complement each other wonderfully. I used a little cinnamon and nutmeg, and reminded me of spiced pears (or spiced apples) except a vivid purple color to the pears, instead of red. The blackberry/pear cobbler goes wonderful with vanilla icecream as well.
God is truly blessing your garden's and fruit tree's this year for sure !! Thank's for sharing.
Gorgeous pears. It’s your busy time of year. We will be here when you get time to video. It makes my day to watch them! Blessings always. ❤️❤️❤️
Danny you don't have to apologize for putting off some videos to get that work done. You be care standing on that tractor front end loader. I think that pear can tool is an interesting idea. May the Lord watch over you both and your homestead during this tropical storm.
My grandfather had a can on a stick, but cut a notch in it and sharpened it for those that did not want to come down. Thanks for the video
Man , as pretty as all them pears are THAT tank and pier in the back ground is really prettiest. Thanks Ms. Wanda for the pear tips.
Should have put a 5 gallon bucket on a stick. LOL. Them trees are loaded! What a harvest. Blessed, y'all are!
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Thanks Wanda and Danny. Can on a stick was the way my daddy harvested too. He always said that when you get a big harvest like that it would be 1 - 3 years before you got another decent harvest. Same with the nut trees when they produced heavily. It turned out that way back then. But the way things are now I'm not sure. I believe that in the latter days the trees are confused as to the seasons which would explain the untimely blooming and producing that we have seen this year. Well, time's a wasting so I've got to get busy. Much Love
I just watched David DuByne's latest video. He reported that the locusts that were in S. America are now in central America. He's predicting they'll get to the U.S. by late August or so, so It's probably a big blessing if crops are ripening early this year.
Morning Y'all ! We understand! As much as we enjoy morning videos, we just hit the play list and watch past ones we haven't seen ! Hope you have a wonderful day !
Pears are my dad’s favorite fruit. I’m glad that you’re getting them canned up.
I read up about our pears and Google says they produce heavy one year, less so the next year and light the third year, then repeats the cycle. In my pears, Ive seen this is true.
My English walnut tree fruits the same way. Super heavy one year almost nothing the next and light the third and boom bumper crop the next year.
Pears falling off here too, the tree by my shed leaves are already turning red and falling off, next sign I look for is the spider/naked ladies lilies to start popping up. Early fall on the way
All things good those lilies just came up in Ind this week
@@rebeccazody1278 I just seen some yesterday, we live not too far from Danny and Wanda, it's been like fall here the last couple days, hot but low humidity.
I can relate to it has to be done now.... and folks that have never done this kind of thing often don't understand. I sell garden produce.....someone jus called and didn't understand that because of a late spring and the drought things are weeks behind....last year this time I was loaded with all kinds of produce.....it coming but it's a full time job watering. Hang in there everyone😊
What an awesome harvest, y'all! The pear trees I planted 3 years ago are far from producing. Hope I make it to my mid 80's. because I might have to wait that long to enjoy any grown on my own homestead!
Wow that's really cool you are getting soo many nice pears off you all's trees.I like the can on the long stick process for picking.We love the bartlet pears.Be safe in the storms coming.Love,Pia&Family.♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡.........
That first pear tree is magnificent - beautiful!
WOW! SO many pears!! Wish I lived close enough to buy some from you. Those are some super happy pear trees! Have a beautiful day! Love yas!!
god has blessed u with a great harvest
That is cool that you all have a ton of pears. I guess that is how it is with gardening, sometimes you win and sometimes you win big! The can stick is smart. Looks like that worked really well. I know it makes me sad that you can't get them all. - Liz 👍💯🌴😀🌸🌻🌴
My mother in law use to make pear pie out of the pears that where harder. Don't know what kind they where. She made it like a apple pie. BEST PIE EVER
My dad cut a V-notch in the end of a long 2x4 to prop up the loaded pear branches. Saves the branches.
I want to thank you for always having good volume on your vlog, a lot of vlog are hard to hear. Danny you speak load and clear as i was told to do in boot camp. I guess you are doing what my drill instructor said and sounding off like you have a pear. I appreciate your site you have good informative content.
glad you got a lot of pairs for this year and you guys sure look adorable working together.💞😃
The Chickens were talking behind you "Give me the pears"
What a great idea with that new tool! I'm so grateful for how God is blessing all your hard work this year. It's so wonderful to see you have such a wonderful harvest and know that you will be taking care of it, preserving, and enjoying it all.
nice big pears
And we love pears here!
CONGRATULATIONS! I would be sick if I was there
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I have no pears or apples. While all was in full bloom we had 23 degree temps here where I am in Indiana. I did not get any apples or pears. All the blooms frozen. I can almost taste your beautiful pears.
If you grow zucchini you can also make mock apple sauce, and mock apple pie filling which I will be canning this year. Last year I made mock pineapple but I shredded it fine so I can use it in breads, cakes. I have also made mock crab cakes which were amazing found recipe on line. I have seen recipes for mock jelly with zucchini and jello.
Those pears look amazing.... no pears for us this year, tree made nothing for some reason
We had that last year. A couple of trees no pears and one just a few. Some years are a good harvest.
Yes. What you call a sand pear are the most awesome pears for canning.
Thats the way our apricots were this year..They grew like grape clusters, but the fruit was big.
God is good. The season of plenty. I wish I was there to barter some of those moonglows. Peace
Wow! That’s a lot of pears! God made up for the lack of pear harvest last year 😁 That’s a pretty nifty tool you got there.
I'll take a box of pears off your hands if the shipping isn't a fortune! I'm in Ohio! I'd love to can up a few quarts and I'd like to try my hand at spiced pears like mom and grandma made...yum
We use to wrap our pears in newspaper and in boxes for winter eating. Some did rotten so you have to check and eat them often.
Great Tool you made there, you two take care and God Bless You!
No problem Danny and Wanda, we will be right here when you can get some vids out. Those of us that are loyal subs won't go anywhere if you unable to get vids edited and uploaded right now. We know you have a lot to do around your place so take your time we arn't going anywhere. Much love from So.Cal.💟
Beautiful pears, mine are tiny right now. Apricots are coming in really good this year. Just have to keep those pesky squirrels out of them.
Yummy, Love pear butter, plus pear pies. You are truly blessed.
Can you clone Wanda and send a replica please ; you’ll never starve with that lady 👍
I’m in Middle Georgia, and my Hood pear also ripened several weeks early. Last year was our first crop, this year the tree is so loaded that the branches all bent to the ground, one branch snapped, and we figure about 300 pears easy. This is after deer ate the fruit off a few lower branches, and new fruit is growing right back on those limbs.
Lol. I use my garden rake to get my pears down. I bought a Bartlett pear and it grew up to be a sand pear. Oh well. It loads up about everyother year.
I read a couple of people think they might be Keifer pears. Others call them sand pears, canning pears, winter pears. All say great for CANNING, one woman makes chutney with them. 😁
All those pears put in mind of my Aunt Mildred. She made the best pear relish. Yummy! Learned about can on a stick today thanks.
I use a can on an extendable paint roller extension pole that someone lost off their truck. It goes from 10 feet to 20 feet. I used to use a light bulb changing cup but the can works a little better.
I don't have hardly anything on my fruit trees this year, we had a late snow and it cut back everything.
Very creative Danny with the can and stick I would have never have thought of that.
Thank you for taking the time to share wi us. Harvesting has a window of time. If you miss it, you may loose some of your crop. Pears are a good filler. If your making jams or jellies a you don’t have quite enough fruit for your recipe, pears make a great substitute. Mix it with apple to make apple sauce.
You’ve probably got a Bartlett :) moon glow is its pollinator :) I have two bartletts and I’m gonna get a moon glow this next spring ! What a crop! I can’t wait till mine start producing !
Your sand pears sound like Kieffer pears, a popular old variety that was a cross between Asian sand pears and European Bartletts. Here in Canada, I too am finding things are ripening or finishing up faster this year than usual, probably due to the higher than normal heat this summer. My apple trees have few apples on them but the Bartlett pear tree is loaded this year.
I love pears and you have an amazing amount
That first pear tree looks like a anjou pear . The second one looks like a Bosc pear . They are a hard pear . I have a stick with a material bag and cage that holds a few pears for picking up high . I love fruit trees but I hated picking up the fruit off the ground every day .
What an absolutely wonderful harvest! I'd love to know how many jars of pears you put up after it's all said and done. Much love and blessings!
Frost took mine out this year. Gonna make that can picker for next year!
Thats the way i always did it with my grandparents. It works really well.
Spend enough time up North in the bitter cold and the heat/humidity is a like a nice soothe sauna. My last winter in Western NY was the winter where Mexico NY received 20 feet of snow over night burying houses, where i lived it was just 10 feet over night. Keep in mind we already had 5 feet of snow accumulated so I woke up to my 2nd story bedroom window having snow covering it halfway up. I had to tunnel out of the house and then dig out elderly neighbors. My first 10 years in the south, on the hottest most humid days, even days where the actual Temperature had exceeded 100 I was out there in direct sun light digging trenches or doing other high physical jobs. I had a Neighbor as me if I was crazy and I said "Nope, I am just glad its not snowing" After 10 years my body finally adjusted to normal and I can't work in the heat. I spent the better part of 25 in those long cold dark winters before I could return to NC where I was born. The heat may be uncomfortable but that cold hurts.
I lived way up near Malone, NY for 10 yrs in a cabin. We used to stop at Mexico at the large truck stop for gas and food on our way back home from visiting family back in PA. I KNOW about that winter cold, it tries to kill you. I moved back to PA in 93 and I do not miss those winters!
@@saddleridge4364 You lived where the cold is actually bitter cold, where I lived between Buffalo and Rochester isn't actually that cold its just dark (more overcast skies than Seattle) with feet of lake effect snow at a time between dark gloomy yet balmy days. You are far more familiar with cold than I am. But it was cold enough for me where I lived to have an extreme hatred for being cold. Summer as I consider summer to be would be short. Maybe 2 months of good summer weather from June 15th to August 15th. We had warm weather outside of that span but you often needed a coat a night. I remember being cold before school started in the fall. Malone is probably closer to Montreal than NYC, it gets very cold up there. . The funny thing about that winter where Mexico NY had all that snow, it was a warm winter following a very hot summer and Lake Ontario was very warm as a cold front went over it creating all that snow. But even a warm winter up north is too cold for me, I headed south where we get a week of cold (below 20) a year, if we get it that cold at all. If I have to or choose to live up north again I am building me a geothermal greenhouse and living in it. A guy in Nebraska did that and he grows Oranges year round there.
I like a little ginger in a pear pie
Blessed Up!!
I use an apple peeler slicer too and make pear rings works good
Nice pears. We didn't get any fruit this year. Bugs got to our peaches and plums lost all their blossoms before fruit set.
We were thrilled with the rain we got from hannah our entire property was dry and crispy except where we have irrigation. Rain was not too heavy just a moderate rain for 2 days off and on.
slice them up and cook the with pork chops and sweet onions in a dutch oven so good
I agree that it is a Bartlett Pear.
It's 552 am here and I feel like I am late to it.
Keep up the good work
Look at all that fruit. Blessings
Clever pear 🍐 picker 😊
Mrs. Wanda, Mr Danny have you tried dehydrated pears? They are my favorite😍 worth a try and something else to do with them. Oh pear cobbler.... now I need to try that!
In our area there are pear trees but the pears never ripen but I will stay where I am as I would not survive the heat where you guys and others are located.
Thank you
That’s Awesome y’all. Stay safe.
Nice bumper crop! ❤
Hi Danny, that looks like a D'Anjou Pear one of my favorite.
YES! I thought that too as I work in a grocery store and they don't really look like a Bartlett. I love eating D'Anjou pears. There are SO MANY varieties of pears too! My uncle had two pears trees that he let us pick from and can all we wanted, but sadly I don't remember what kind they were. I was young and didn't know a difference then, only that they tasted good all winter long. I do know I don't care for Bosc at all.... Uncle also had a huge grape arbor and we got all those grapes too. We were SO blessed and never wanted for food while I was growing up. All homemade bread, pancakes, muffins, etc. too. I still bake from scratch to this day and always will.
Ha! I was thinking that too. I just bought a bunch from Costco and dehydrated half and canned the other half. Yum!
the hard ones look to me like Kieffer Pears we had them all over the place in the north
you can also make pear butter if you were so inclined. I like to also make peach butter which is great.
I THINK IT IS A SHORTENING OF TIME, WE MUST SPEED UP, PURE BEAUTY FRUITS
We have a bumper crop also. It's like God is getting us ready for something. The last 3 years we had the worst. We done very little different
We have an asian pear tree.. I wish we liked them.. they are individually wrapped and cost a small fortune at the grocery store, so it's a real sin that we don't care for them! We get such pretty white blossoms that last only a few days each spring, and fruit on the tree every other year it seems... it grows very tall and fast if we don't prune it hard, and right now it has really gotten away from us the last few years... not sure what to make of it or how to use them that we'd enjoy and like them better. Made applesauce once with them, won't do that again. We usually end up tossing them into the woods, feeling guilty, and hope the bears don't smell them and visit! We both love Bosc pears though... Good luck with the weather coming, hoping it passes you by and it cools off soon. We are absolutely broiling up here in the northeast as well.
The first tree we seen you picking does indeed look like a Bartlett Pear, and the other one that you called a sand pear, looks to me like a Bosc Pear
Is there a market nearby you could take your extras to? Or perhaps a food pantry?
We keep everything for ourselves.
God Bless you guys’ hands when it comes to getting all of that preserved!! Haha
Those sand pears look just like the asian pear that i have in Ohio. I peel and quarter them and let them sit in water for 1 day then blend for pear butter
Gonna be a rough winter
Squirrel got mine this year
Mr. Danny...I collect pears for canning at my great grandparents old homestead. They are the sand pears I’m guessing??? They have been growing on that piece of property for maybe a good 75 years or so. Maybe more??? Anyway the question I have is about them being so HARD....what causes that? They are somewhat smaller but they are delicious cook as spiced pears like Mrs. Wand said. They are also just now starting to blush. When is the right time to pick them for perfection?
The variety is why they're hard. When you're thumb is pressed around the stem and it feels a little soft they are ready to pick and let set a couple days.
Good morning
I have a quick question. On fig trees can I top the plant? Its only on its third year(it was a 1 foot twig with 2 leaves when I rescued it from the store) and I have to grow in a pot as its too cold in the winter here but it grew straight up the first two years and is quite spindly. This year the bottom 2/3 of the trunk sprouted many branches and its a nice little bushy plant now.
But I'd like to clip it to bring that sparse spindly top off. I've never grown a fig before and watching you prune all your young fruit trees I think taking that top 1/3 of the tree off would probably make the plant a lot more healthy.
I will be potting and hopefully rooting what I cut off. It's an Olympia fig if the type matters.
Thanks for any advice you can give. Or from any other comments from other poster/ members
You could make pear wine.
Pears, lovely pears, lovely harvest, so y'all just have to harvest them a little green and work like the dickens. could be a comice
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You guys need go get yourselves a Wolf Extension pole with picker....it is cloth so it won't dent your fruit.
Kiefer pair
Download a plant id app. Will help identify your pear tree. I spend hours in my yard using this app on everything. Loads of fun aside from serving an actual purpose.
I don't carry a phone.
Looks like my Kieffer pear tree I have
Omg! That's a lot of work!
Yeah but worth it.
Another question I have a five year old northern fig it produces in sept I cut it back just before frost and surround it with straw. This year it has grown to 20 feet tall can’t reach figs what would happen if I topped each branch
It's ok if done during the winter.
🏞😎❤🎆 I would love to have a pear tree or two like that.
I love me some nice juicy pears. Yummy yummy. ❤❤❤❤