How to grow and harvest pears?

Pear trees was in our front yard when I was growing up. Pears are easy to grow and there are many different culinary and dessert varieties to choose from that is offering different flavors, textures, and storing qualities. Some of them are "Concorde" is a pear that has a good flavor to it and very easy to grow. This one is ideal for smaller plots. "Beurre Superfin" is a pear that bears fruit in early fall. It has richly aromatic fruit to it. This one is a good choice for wall-training. "Doyene du Comice" is a type of apart that needs to have a sunny spot to grow in and it produces delicious fruit in mid-fall. "Packham's Triumph" is a pear that has a richly-flavored fruit that comes in mid-fall. This one grows best in a sheltered site.

Pear trees are planted in the spring and mid-fall through winter. They are harvest later summer through most of fall.

In early spring pear trees will flower and they will need plenty of sun to ripen the fruit. The pear trees also needs a warm, sheltered spot. The soil needs to be prepare before the pear trees can be planted. I do this, by digging up the soil real good and getting all of the weeds out of it, then I work some fertilizer that is granular general purpose and then I will add organic matter to the soil where I will be planting some pear trees. Pear trees needs other pear trees to pollinate before the pear trees will set fruit.

I know that pears needs to be kept moist, I will water them well during their first year and always during the dry spells that we always have especially in the summer. I will mulch around the trunk in the spring with garden compost. This is done to retain moisture and shade the roots. I will apply general purpose fertilizer to my pear trees in the spring and then I will add a high-potash feed during the summer.

Pear trees will produce a heavy crop, and this should be thinned to promote full-sized fruit. In the middle of summer, I will thin the fruitless leaving only one for each cluster. As the fruit grows, the tree limbs will need some support to keep them form snapping and if I do not support them, they will snap after they get a lot of the fruits on the branches.

Most of the fruits will start to ripe in late summer. I found the best way to pick my pears from off of our pear trees is to cup the fruit in my hand, lift and twist the pear.

I pruned all of our pear trees in the winter. I will prune out the congested stems so that our pear trees will keep on open shape.  also prune all of the diseased, damaged and crossing growth out of our pear trees. The stems that produced in the summer needs to be cut back half of its length so that spurs will develop at the base and this is where my fruit will be next year.