[NAFEX] Asian Pear ultra low brix
Doug Woodard
dwoodard at becon.org
Thu Sep 6 16:53:55 EDT 2007
During the growing season if a cut is made into infected wood, the
fireblight will be transmitted on the pruning tool. Disinfection is a
pain, and with bleach can be rough on the tool if done often. I
understand that if the pruning is done in the dormant season, the
infection is not transmitted, but I'm not sure I know all the ins and
outs of this.
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Spidra Webster wrote:
> My neighbor has an Asian pear and has been giving me some of his
> harvest. I'm not wild about pears in general, but like European
> pears better than Asian. Most people like European pears far riper
> and sweeter than I do. I actually like them crisp. But these Asian
> pears are the lowest sugar pears I've ever eaten. It's more like
> eating vegetables. I don't know whether that's because he's
> harvesting them too early (the tree has fireblight and I alerted him
> to that so he's been pruning things) or what.
>
> I'm pretty broke right now due to having taken a month off for
> surgery and recovery so I can't turn my nose up at free food. Does
> anyone have any serving ideas for making these pears more
> pleasurable? Lemon and brown sugar?
>
> Spidra Webster
>
> Zone 9b Berkeley, CA
>
>
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