The new Forever Home has two small fruit trees in the back. The apples are very small, barely bigger than ping pong ball, and almost all of them have been pecked at by birds and critters. I won’t be trying any of them.
But the pears!
They’re not as big as the ones in the store, but they’ve gotten close to that size, and they’re turning from green to yellow.
And there are a LOT of them. Almost all with spots of bird crap on them, but very few with chunks eaten away.
I figured they were getting ripe when they started falling to the ground. THOSE started getting munched on by the squirrels and crows and scrub jays pretty quickly.
The first harvest was small, but brought a sense of adventure!
Today I ate the first of our crop – NOT BAD! (Especially after they were all washed to remove the bird droppings…) Still juicy, a bit more tart and less sweet than the store-bought pears, but very, very edible!
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