Vince has been real busy planting trees and didn’t want to have to plant any other trees right now but he loves persimmons and I thought it would be nice to see if I could find him a persimmon tree. We both love sugar pears and there was a tree in MO where we could pick as many sugar pears as we wanted. Here, we found some at Sam’s Club but buying them already picked is nothing like going out and picking your own. I’ve told my dad about the sugar pears and he had never had them but he’s been searching for a sugar pear tree. Then I started searching for them and couldn’t find them. I looked at the label on the box of sugar pears we bought at Sam’s to see if it had any other name and it didn’t . . just sugar pears.
While looking online for persimmon trees, which were already sold out or it was too late to ship them to our area, I came across this . . “also called sugar or candy pears”! How could I pass that up? Since we already had a full size pear tree, I ordered two dwarf sugar pears. That way, if I need to net them to keep the birds off them, it will be easier.
I didn’t mention that I’d ordered two more fruit trees (and a cherry tree) til they arrived. Vince opened the box and said “What the heck??”
Out came the tools — two wheel barrows . . why two? The big tiller, the little tiller . .
That man of mine knows how to plant a tree!
He’s so proud of himself for thinking of using that little tiller to grind up the dirt. By the time he’s done with it, it’s about the texture of baby powder!
Now we just have to patiently wait til we can walk right out in our yard and pick figs, peaches, pears, pomegranates and cherries and I think I’ll be in big trouble if I bring home any more trees for Vince to plant . . at least for a while.
Becky G says
You are creating a wonderful homestead! For years & years those trees will bear fruit. A lovely legacy.
Lynn Dykstra says
Seckel Pear
Nancy Garner says
Your going to be so happy to walk out into your farm for years to come and be able to sit under the shade of all those trees and reach up and pick all those different fruits. Then you can can then for the cold winters
when the fruits are no long available. All your friends and neighbors will come to visit and just love all your trees, and fruit. It has been so much fun at my small property in San Diego over the years watch my trees
produce fruits, and the joy of my friends and neighbors come and enjoy the harvest. You are truly blessed.
Rosalie says
If you are not planting those baby fruit trees in a deer-proofed area, you may want to put a little fence around them….when there is nothing to eat in the wild, the deer will strip your trees overnight! Of course a dog or two in the yard will deter them.
Rosalie says
If you get that cherry to grow and produce in Texas let me know! My grandmother in Indiana had a cherry tree, but we have never attempted such in Texas!
Judy D in WA says
Your orchard is going to be amazing! I’ve never had persimmons, didn’t know what they are, googled it 😉 , now I will have to find one to try it.
Rebecca says
Oh, yum…I have to go eat lunch NOW!
Considering Michigan is cherry country, I wonder about yours, also. I know there are some plants we just can’t grow here in southern California. We can grow figs (I remember my first fresh fig) and persimmons, though. A friend had more persimmons than she knew what to do with! I’m sure you’ll figure something out.
Doris - The Quilting Queen says
I can hardly wait till those fruit trees start bearing. I hope I still live here and not in the frozen tundra up north!!! Apple and Cherry pie are my favorites!! Cherry jelly is especially delicious!