I pruned the living hell out of the pear tree late last year, and remembered to put the anti-cow fencing back up just in time this year so the tree has resisted the persistent cattle invasions of my yard.
I don’t remember when I planted this tree. My memory says it was like 2014 but it was a gift from Ian and he planted his grove in 2011 so that seems more likely. It went so many years without producing a single piece of fruit that I long assumed it never would – until one year it did, and now there have been two fruitful years including last year. But it’s always feast or famine, it’s never…
…one single pear. On the whole tree. That never happened before.
I’ve heard that it’s a bad thing if things go ‘pear shaped’…
I’ve heard that members of the rose family can do what’s called alternate bearing. One year heavy and the next year light or none. Pear trees are in that family.