“Unlike apples, which are ready to eat right off the tree, pears are tricky. They have to go through the ripening process off the tree. If you let them hang on the tree till they’re fully ripe they turn to brown mush from the inside out.” Excerpted from “What’s Wrong With My Fruit Garden?” by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth. Timber Press, December, 2013. Click
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