A Pared Pear

We had a blustery day, I was busy in the garden adding stakes around my tomato cages because the wind kept tipping over the top-heavy bushes.

While I was busy with those tomatoes, I noticed that quite a few apples were falling off the trees. About an hour later we saw that the apples were not the only trees getting rustled.

It could be called a pruned pear or a pared pear. This branch had been loaded with pears. Between the weight of the fruit and the wind, it snapped the branch right off.

Just off this one branch of immature fruit, we collected a 5 gallon bucketful of pears. They will be set aside for a few days so they soften up, then they will be sliced in half and fed to the show animals in the barn. With one branch holding so much fruit, it should be a good crop for this old tree as long as it holds onto the rest of its branches.