A good year for Asian Pears and Peaches in Germany

[amideutch]

First 4 pictures are my 3 Asian Pear trees loaded with fruit.
The Last picture is my Peach tree that the top broke off of from the weight of all the peaches. So far I have gotten 4 laundry baskets full of peaches off this one tree. Ami

[clara]

So you have not only a green thumb for tomatoes, but for fruit trees, too, Ami! The top of our plum tree has broken off, too, some weeks ago, over-loaded with fruits. I didn't cut it and all the plums ripened in spite of the damage. clara

[garnetmoth]

those are gorgeous!
Do you can or dry the excess?

[amideutch]

gmoth, what we end up with we can. But normally give away what we don't eat. Ami

[veggie babe]

what a treat to have such good fruit availabe in your own back yard. Sorry about the peach tree damage but it still looks like a healthy tree so hopefully it will survive. I froze 9 qts of peaches and dehydrated 4 trays........... my favorite fruit. I want to make peach ice cream soon.

neva

[Robert Brenchley]

You've got warmer springs than me if you can grow peaches out of doors and count on pollination. My Cambridge Gage is laden with fruit this year, but a cold spell at the wrong time can easily mean no fruit on plums and gages at all.

[amideutch]

The root stock used on the particular variety has a lot to do with it. I don't believe my spring is any warmer than yours. My biggest problem every year is disease. Same with my apples. But the Asian pears don't have much problem with disease over here. I do have a green gage in the yard I planted 5 years ago as a 2 year old and still havn't gotten any fruit and it is slow grower compared to my other fruit trees. Ami

[Robert Brenchley]

It could be partly the rootstock, but the pattern in the UK is that peaches flower too early, when there's a strong possibility of frost, and few pollinators flying. I've had years when I didn't get a single plum, not because of frost, but because it was too cold for pollinating insects. Peaches are earlier than plums. I don't have problems with apples or pears due to their later flowering.

[organichris]

My Father-in-law has an Asian pear tree. This year I don't think his tree produced a single pear in Oklahoma, but in years past they were weighted down considerably.

One night I walked outside and saw three foxes eating the fruit that had fallen to the ground. I didn't know that foxes ate pears, but I can assure you they do.

[amideutch]

Here are pictures taken of my 3 trees loaded up with fruit and ready for harvest. Ami

[veggie babe]

Ami, that is really beautiful fruit. I know it tastes as good as it looks, I have never had a harvest look that good. Looks like canning time.

neva

[geeboss]

Ami

What are the ages of your fruiting trees? Yummy thinking of all the dishes you can make with those wonderful peaches and pears.

George

[amideutch]

George, I planted those trees in "01". 4 years after planting out, the trees started bearing fruit. Ami