Pear Harvest 2025

[Robert]

Pictures of some European pears for you

Fondante des Moulins-Lille is an easy pear, it fruits super early which is very nice and it sets very reliably. Its about average on rots. Its easy to cellar and get very tasty pears out as well, unlike many pears which have narrow windows on the pick-cellar-counter ripen phases. I picked most of mine last weekend. Its a bit hard to time the picking as they can still be quite green on the skin, go by softness at the top and if they easily come off when gently lifted. If they are yellow they…

There is more to that report if you click it. From his description it sounds like it doesn’t need a lot of storage to ripen.

Wish my FDML was fruiting. I keep hearing about how great it is.