Vince has been real busy planting trees and didn’t want to have to plant any other trees right now but he loves persimmons and I thought it would be nice to see if I could find him a persimmon tree. We both love sugar pears and there was a tree in MO where we could pick as many sugar pears as we wanted. Here, we found some at Sam’s Club but buying them already picked is nothing like going out and picking your own. I’ve told my dad about the sugar pears and he had never had them but he’s been searching for a sugar pear tree. Then I started searching for them and couldn’t find them. I looked at the label on the box of sugar pears we bought at Sam’s to see if it had any other name and it didn’t . . just sugar pears.
While looking online for persimmon trees, which were already sold out or it was too late to ship them to our area, I came across this . . “also called sugar or candy pears”! How could I pass that up? Since we already had a full size pear tree, I ordered two dwarf sugar pears. That way, if I need to net them to keep the birds off them, it will be easier.
I didn’t mention that I’d ordered two more fruit trees (and a cherry tree) til they arrived. Vince opened the box and said “What the heck??”
Out came the tools — two wheel barrows . . why two? The big tiller, the little tiller . .
That man of mine knows how to plant a tree!
He’s so proud of himself for thinking of using that little tiller to grind up the dirt. By the time he’s done with it, it’s about the texture of baby powder!
Now we just have to patiently wait til we can walk right out in our yard and pick figs, peaches, pears, pomegranates and cherries and I think I’ll be in big trouble if I bring home any more trees for Vince to plant . . at least for a while.
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