PITA

MinM

Pear tree + 80 mph winds = PITA. Our yard was covered in at least 300 rock hard pears.

MinM

Also a PITA? Stupid formatting issues.

nicoleg1982

LOL.  That's NUTS!  I can't believe you have that many dropped pears.  Will Jake play with them?

hmonkey

awesome.

ohh, better get a rake before it ferments and turns into a bee haven!

MinM

Jake will eat them. Usually, birds or some other insect/animal will open them up on the tree before they even fall. Taz really liked the pears, too.

This is convenient for Jake, because they are all open and soft by the time he gets to them.

The wasps really like them when they start to ferment and they get all drunk and slow. No bees, just wasps and flies. Other creatures come and eat on them at night.

H raked them up into four big piles and I used the pooper scooper and H used the shovel to get them all into the big trash can and then compost trash can. It took us the better part of an hour. This is such a PITA because we have never gotten ONE edible pear from this tree. Just a bunch of crap to clean up.

hmonkey

you actually want to eat the pears from this tree?

you need to thin them out, and then bag them.  as in, leave only one or two pears per branch (so all the nutrients go to that pear), and then staple a lunch bag over that pear to protect it from birds and insects. 

MinM

hmo - No, we do not like pears. It would be nice if it would generate fruit for other people to enjoy, but we aren't going to put any effort into that happening.

There are so many pears on the brances, the limbs are hanging down. It looks like the tree haz a sad. I'll take a picture of a branch up close for you to see how many pears we are dealing with.

6fsn

Daggone that is a lot of pears!