Just needed to be heard for a little while

Waves_and_Smiles

I have never seen a pear tree. Can't you tell I am a city girl? Thinking about it the only fruit trees I have ever seen in real life are apple and orange, I feel deprived!

Hahahahahahaha! what a wonderful pic, elsien! I would play, there is no way that I could resist those eyes!

lostinrates

Here you go was ,

I have six pears, this one is humbug, a stripey one. Mine are trained, not in a natural form. And this is not the one the pige was in



And this isn't a good pear tree pic, but as well as humbug, they are my prettiest pears, 'sensation'


( pear trees are not prickly, I grow roses with my pears)

whitewing

DD wants to eat one, even though they look funny.

Waves_and_Smiles

Oh. they are pretty! I never knew pears looked like that when they are growing. I am used to seeing them looking uniformly the same in plastic bags in supermarkets, did I mention city girl? Yours look much nicer!

lostinrates

I wish she were here to white wing! They will hopefully taste very good. The first one fell of a tree today(not one of these two, I think it was an invincible) and I gave it to my resident parent.

Pears the timing for perfection is the headrest I think.

This year I am planting my first medlar though, and those you let 'blet' which means almost rot!

lostinrates

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Oh. they are pretty! I never knew pears looked like that when they are growing. I am used to seeing them looking uniformly the same in plastic bags in supermarkets, did I mention city girl? Yours look much nicer!

Hehe, thank you.

Its a learning curve. I'm thrilled we've got them. This is humbug's first fruiting year and the fruit will stay on him till quite late in the season, he is a late one.

Waves_and_Smiles

See? I never knew that either. I kind of figured they all grew together and you plucked off the trees at the same time. I would love to live in the country and it would be very good for my mental health but I would be utterly useless. I would love having fruit trees though, I eat a lot of fruit daily and I would love to grow my own.

elsien

Right. I'm posting it on here with the thought that if I tell people, I'm committing myself. If I don't mention it again, life got in the way. Or I've been attacked by zombies. Or something.
*Takes a deep breath.*
I'm going to attempt the first couch to 5k tomorrow morning. If I don't set a date, it's never going to happen. So depending on how much of a sod Gitdog is tomorrow morning, I'm going to try to fit it in before I give my neigbours a lift at 11.30.

lostinrates

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

See? I never knew that either. I kind of figured they all grew together and you plucked off the trees at the same time. I would love to live in the country and it would be very good for my mental health but I would be utterly useless. I would love having fruit trees though, I eat a lot of fruit daily and I would love to grow my own.

You can grow fruit in a city garden. It won't feed you all year, neither does my garden feed me all year ( partly because I cannot maintain it and am disorganised and partly because we haven't planted enough yet) but its fun. If you get a flat with a little bit of garden or balcony you could grow some stuff. Even just lettuce. . You could water it at night when no one saw you but you would have to take care of it.

It could be fun.

Waves_and_Smiles

Well done, elsien! I bet you enjoy it once you get started. If you don't mention it again I will presume you are pinned to the couch by Gitdog asleep on your legs!

I would love that, LIR! When I eventually move from here I am going to try to get a flat with a little garden. I have always wanted to grow my own fruit and vegetables and I am quite good with house plants. I have always wanted berry bushes too, I eat lots of those. I have grown tomato plants and chilli plants indoors, plus herbs before.