pear pictures

pears from my luscious tree


luscious tree


parker pear


most of the pears on the parker tree got hit with this fungus


it made the skin turn black and crack




parker tree, in need of a lot of pruning this fall


summercrisp pear, light on one side


red on the other


there was a wasp going in and out of a hole on the bottom of that nice pear.




when it ripens, summercrisp turns yellow. they ripen about a month before the other three trees, in august rather than in september.


summercrisp tree


patten pears




patten tree (the smallest tree)

a little of everything

the pears got heavy this year




monster zucchini plant with monster zucchinis




cantelope


watermelon - they didnt get very big this year


sunflowers


just a few beans. i liked that both my foot AND puppys foot were in the frame


the bottom bean is a normal sized green bean. the upper bean is the ginormous oversized one. it makes the normal one look teeny, but its not.


beans from the oversized greenbeans


a neat fireworks puzzle


a lake house in fall puzzle

diseased pears

these are the parker pears. i think they have pear scab, also called black spot. its a fungus.




its on the leaves too






the fungal spores kinda rub off. they dont rub AWAY, but it turns my fingers brown.


humid conditions make it worse, and we've had a very rainy spring and summer. (ended up being the wettest year on record)


these are the luscious pears. i think they have pear psylla. its a tiny bug that turns the skin into brown russetting.




theres some of the russeting from pear psylia on the parker pears too


summercrisp are looking good




patten are looking good

baby pears

some of them have this 'rust' looking thing on them that i think is caused by a bug called pear psylla. so i'll have to spray the trees with some kind of insect spray. but one that wont harm bees. and i have to figure out the right time to apply, if it needs multiple applications. ugh. i dont want to spray, but nearly the whole luscious tree has this, and some on the parker tree too.






some of the parker tree leaves have this - which might be pear blister mite, and would also need spraying for.






a wasp was trying to start a hive on the luscious tree. i shooed it away and tore the start of the hive off the tree. it didnt come back.


baby luscious pears