I normally get a few dozen, but in 2024 I get a grand total of… one!

by D1789

29 comments
  1. You need to grow a banana plant so you can give this (possibly enormous) pear some scale.

  2. I think it’s due to the wet weather we have had for the last few years. 3 years ago I had a bumper crop on all my trees, last year not a single pear and this year a few more conference pears but nothing on the other 2 trees I have growing in the garden.
    The sweet pears are not fruiting much this year either. Apples are doing very well though, much better than last year.

  3. I usually get loads but this year my pear tree has just gone “fuck it, you can just have a load of black leaves”

    Something something fungal infection something

  4. I like a nice pear!

    Our apple tree managed two apples this year.

  5. The same amount off my apple tree 2 years before I wanted to make cider it was dripping with the buggers.

  6. I have to throw about 100-200 away from the apple trees in the back garden. Every year its a fight to get rid of the fallen apples before they attract all the insects and birds and pretty much everything. The neighbours pick a few and we make a crumble or two but theres so many. Next year im going to make a lot of cider. Ill make the press out of old wood and a car jack, something to do over winter.

  7. Once had a plum tree gifted to me by my neighbour and I prepped for a load of plums to grow, did everything he said and nothing. Nothing year, did the same and nothing, so I gave up.

    In the 3rd year, with no action, they grew like mad and even though the birds and squirrels had taken some, we still got a good bunch! So keep it alive and have the patience of a saint.

  8. My neighbour gets loads. I always make sure to wake up early and get them before him. He’s complaining he didn’t get any this year too.

  9. I haven’t had any apples this year, but last year I had hundreds. I think it might fruit every other year.

  10. The weather was really terrible this year for growing fruit. 

    I think the warm weather came too late in the year. 

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