It's PawPaw time

[JeepHead]

They make fruit, but the fruit disappears off the trees. Just like my apples, peaches, cherries, pears, grapes, etc... I told my wife we should just skip trying to raise fruits and vegetables and just eat all the critters.

The deer really love the paw paws!

 

[D&D]

They make fruit, but the fruit disappears off the trees. Just like my apples, peaches, cherries, pears, grapes, etc... I told my wife we should just skip trying to raise fruits and vegetables and just eat all the critters.

I had pear trees that grew fruit. Every day I'd go out and say maybe tomorrow. The picked ripe day never came, apparently the white tail deer love pears. Took my slow self a couple years and a game cam to figure out

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Depending on the pear variety many will ripen better off the tree. Comice pears (my favorite) for example I pick them as the blush up good. Have a little give to them around the stem. THen I let them sit at room temp until they are the desired texture I want. Bartlett's it depends on what the end product will be. If you're canning most people prefer them hard if you're gonna eatem I usually wait till they are about to fall off and pickem. Mainly to save the critters from eating them. Squirrels and crows are my nemesis for much of my fruit production.

 

[MossRoad]

Robbin mom's teach the babies to eat the sour cherries at our house. I still got enough off the tree to make 5 pies this years, so I was happy.

 

[kenmbz]

Critters left me one tiny hole ridden pear on my two trees, and two peaches on my new peach tree, zero on the mature peach tree which was laden with fruit a month back.
They don't wait for the fruit to be even close to ripe before they take it, not even a peach pit to be found.
They don't eat my figs though, get plenty of those.

I don't think I have ever had a paw paw though people say they grow wild around here.

Even the black walnuts and hickory nuts are bad by the time they hit the ground (bugs on the ground or squirrels before they fall)

 

[Jstpssng]

You guys sound like me with my tomatoes right now. As soon as they ripen the damned turkeys get into them. I covered them this morning, thinking I might pick 4 tonight.
Nope. Rather than eating one or two and leaving me the rest, they had to peck at all 4.

 

[kenmbz]

You guys sound like me with my tomatoes right now. As soon as they ripen the damned turkeys get into them. I covered them this morning, thinking I might pick 4 tonight.
Nope. Rather than eating one or two and leaving me the rest, they had to peck at all 4.

I have a 7 foot chicken screen cage and the tomato plants are in a metal raised bed and the screen is stapled to the ground (ground hogs got in once).

Only way I can get any tomatoes. I pick when they start turning red and let ripen on my kitchen counter.

Of course this year I had army worms destroy half my tomatoes less than 24 hours after I had checked them. Some hornworms too, but they are slow and easily removed.

 

[RayIN]

I've got the trees. Never get any fruit. Something's eating them before they ripen.

Deer will stand on their hind legs to reach them. It's like candy to them. I don't get any ripe fruit either.

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Speaking of deer standing on their hind legs. Never seen a deer stick its hoofs this high into the air.

First thoughts were "I raise a hallelujah"...

Note this is two different deer a buck and a doe.

 

[MossRoad]

Speaking of deer standing on their hind legs. Never seen a deer stick its hoofs this high into the air.

First thoughts were "I raise a hallelujah"...

Note this is two different deer a buck and a doe.

Give me a D!
D!
Give me an O!
O!
Give me an E!
E!
What's is spell?
DOE!
What's that?
DOE!
One more time!
DOE!