[Grovenet] Pear tree

Tue Apr 21 09:20:55 PDT 2009

 I heard on the radio that pears need lots of water at the end of their cycle.  I suspect late season watering, combined with thinning of overladen branches may help.  And although pears ripen well in cool cellar conditions, they seem to gain weight and size on the tree almost right up to picking.
Mark
--- On Tue, 4/21/09, Ayala, Kathy <Kathy.Ayala at nike.com> wrote:

From: Ayala, Kathy <Kathy.Ayala at nike.com>
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Pear tree
To: "Forest Grove local interests list" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 3:10 PM

Thanks Katie for the information and phone number I will wait and see if
I can find out any other information and if not then I will use the
phone number and call the Master Gardener. I agree, I love the pears and
think I will go get a new one this year to plant in a different place in
the yard to see if it does any better over the next year or so. I love
the Oregon Pears we have! 

-----Original Message-----
From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
Behalf Of Katie Allnutt
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:03 AM
To: Forest Grove local interests list
Subject: [Grovenet] Pear tree

I can only say that once we started pruning our pear tree we had the
same problem. The first year after we pruned it, the fruit was weighing
down the branches so heavily they were half way to the ground!
The other issue of course could be bees. Do you see bees around when it
is blooming?
Weather, soil conditions and a zillion other things can cause premature
fruit drop so it might be hard to figure out.  If you can't get any
clues from a google search you could call the County Extension Service
Master Gardener  (503-725-2300) and they could lead you to more local
information.
Good luck. Fresh pears are so good it is worth the work to try to get
your tree back.

Katie

On Apr 21, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Ayala, Kathy wrote:

> Good Morning
>
> I have a question and am hoping some one can help me with this. I have

> a pear tree, it has been giving very little fruit and the fruit it 
> gives falls from the tree way to soon. Any one know what might be 
> wrong with my tree?
>
> Thanks and have a good day
>
> Kathy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet- bounces at rdrop.com] 
> On Behalf Of Walt Wentz
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:48 AM
> To: Forest Grove local interests list
> Subject: [Grovenet] Garden Irrigation In!
>
> Hello, All!
> On Saturday, Steve and Tony Matiaco,  along with Josh, members of 
> their Scout troop, some international exchange students and many old 
> hands and new volunteers, all showed up at the Forest Grove Community 
> Garden site on a beautiful cool morning, as a truckload of plastic 
> pipe and fittings arrived from HPS Pipe and Supply in Cornelius.
> While Steve, Josh and Shawn operated the monster trenching machine (so

> called from its behavior, not its size), the rest turned to cutting, 
> gluing and assembling the plumbing system, then lowering the completed

> sections to their position at the bottom of those trenches.
> After after six hours of anthill  activity, the field bristled with a 
> "crop" of 50 white faucet risers, each with a brass faucet on
top.
> At that point, Tony's Mom and sisters-- Carole, Annie and Diana-- 
> called a halt for a delicious home-made lunch, finished off with home-

> made cookies.
> Shortly after that, the final line was installed. Standing at one end 
> of the field, looking down the long panorama of faucet risers 
> projecting 18 inches into the air, the real scale of the project 
> becomes obvious.
> That
> part of the job is DONE!
> Great work, all!
> Next we have to test the system for water-tightness, which can't be 
> done until the city gets the backflow-preventer installed. We don't 
> want any sudden geyser erupting in the middle of the Garden!
> Once that's done, we will backfill the trenches-- which will be 
> another good team project, and should go quicker with many hands-- and

> then it's time for the first cultivation, to turn over the lush 
> blanket of weeds that have flourished in that fertile soil.
> Holly has set up a ribbon-cutting celebration for 11 a.m. on the 26th,

> which will be another workday for Tony and crew, as they install the 
> fence around the West end of the field and the raised-bed gardens are 
> installed just north of the parking lot.
> But-- as they say on TeeVee-- that's not all, folks! A gracious lady, 
> Mary Maxon, has offered us a 12-by-12 gazebo, with openwork metal 
> sides and fabric roof, which we can set up as a children's area/ 
> picnic site/cooling-off spot for hot summer days. The roof frame was 
> damaged during last winter's heavy snow, but that's something that
can

> be easily replaced with a few 2x4s.
>
> Still to to:
> * Pressure-test water system (need to have city connect the system) * 
> Backfill trenches
> * Get first cultivation done.
> * Set up donated raised-beds, fill bottoms with spoil dirt from the 
> pile just inside the northwest corner of the fence line.
>
> (Official ribbon cutting at 11 on Saturday at about this point, as 
> work
> continues)
>
> *  Build west-side fence, start on east-side fence and main gate.
> * Do second cultivation,  stake and string plots (another BIG team
> job) and start letting people plant and cultivate their crops!
>
> Steve Matiaco has suggested a "Garden Barbecue" for some
Saturday when

> the Garden is up and running-- for publicity, goodwill and to draw in 
> more rentors-- which seems a great idea to me!
>
> We still need fence posts-- Tony has collected 18, I will find some 
> more and split 12 cedar posts (for ends and corners), which is a 
> definite 30 out of the 40-odd required, so we will need some more.
> Any decrepit but usable (or repairable) wheelbarrows will be greatly 
> appreciated!
> We'll need 30 or 40 2x4s, for faucet support posts in the garden and 
> to replace the roof frame on the gazebo.
> Thanks to everyone, a great public amenity is approaching completion!
>
> Walt
>
>
>
>
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