It's vital to know the exact time you should harvest pears because pears are ready to be picked when they're fully formed, not when they're ripe on the tree. Leave them until they're ripe and you may ...

Gardening season is in full swing and there are lots of questions out there. Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...

Bartlett pears hang from a tree branch at Oregon State University’s Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center on July 18. U.S. fresh pear exports are expected to drop to their lowest level since ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Subarashii Kudamono, which means “wonderful fruit” in Japanese, is an heirloom grower of Asian ...

Besides growing wine grapes, I also produce pears. As I have tried to chronicle here since the earliest start to a growing season on record in the eastern U.S., the unusual weather is changing the way ...

Urban Abundance, a Slow Food Southwest Washington program, is gearing up for its largest fundraiser and harvest. Called Pick-a-Pear-a-thon, it’ll happen either the second or third week in August. It ...

An August heat spell brought the Rogue Valley’s pear harvest on track for a normal schedule. Rogue Valley growers began harvesting red pears in mid-August and began picking Comice blocks just before ...

We are approaching peak prickly pear season. Based on the prickly pear fruit she can see in her neighborhood, Sonya Norman gives it another week or two before the fruit is really ready for harvest.

Pears have always been among the orchard fruit trees at our family farm. In Europe, pears are known as “the butter fruit” because of the smooth, soft and “creamy texture” of the flesh when ripe. Today ...

If you want to grow a pear tree that produces fruit indoors, then it’s best to choose dwarf varieties. “Avoid cultivars that ...

Pears and apples are keystone crops in the Columbia Gorge. The Hood River Valley is a prime location for orchards and fruit. (iStock.com) YAKIMA — Proving resistant to early-summer heat, the regional ...