Pear tree mystery

[Florida chick]

WOW I had no idea you could eat the raw.. Everytime I tried them they tasted gross! Maybe the peeling is the trick, thanks.

 

[ruth]

Well it also depends on your taste in fruit. I've always loved slightly green, crisp fruit and will pick and eat the plums while still yellow and buy hard peaches and even the regular eating pears I eat while hard. I love the tiny green apples that grew on my aunt's tree that are always hard. I'll eat the really ripe, juice running down your chin fruit, but I prefer the hard crisp kind better - just something about the texture - but definitely two different tastes altogether between still crisp and soft and ripe.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

My aunt always makes pear sauce with them. I've never had it, but she said it's just like making applesauce. I'm going to try that with mine this year. I've been bagging them and throwing them out for the past 3 years (well, just once since they only come every other year!!)

 

[sellersgang]

OMG .. Ruth.. Now you got me wanting to guard my pear tree! Ours is loaded too but are never ready until September. I always make Pear Preserves and a Pear Relish so keep those critters in your neck of the woods!!! I have already seen half eaten pears on the ground and figured it was the squirrels. Hey.. do chickens like that kind of pear?????

 

[beefy]

i just found this thread and i know exactly what got your pears b/c they got all mine too!

it was a family of skunk apes.

if not the skunk apes it may have been bats. you got any bats around?

 

[ruth]

Quote:
Thanks Beefy - I needed that laugh today after taking a stray dog and a broken-leg goat to vet today at same time. You always make me laugh. Thanks again. "Skunk Apes"

And bats, hmmmm let me think - only about a million of them.

 

[beefy]

did you check Rex's bedroom yet?

 

[BantyHugger]

We had Asian pears growing in the front yard for a while. Then the local Asians found out. Those things sell for $4 a pear at market! We stopped the stealing and they paid us for what they took. Not at $4 a pear though, we just charged $20 every trip. We had 3 trees and never ate that much.

 

[texaschickmama]

Didn't you have a ghost around your place? I'm bettin' on him.

 

[EweSheep]

Got any fruit bats????????????