It can be a challenge to find certain ripe fruits at a grocery store. I haven’t bought a pear or peach or nectarine in ages.
“I haven’t bought a pear or peach or nectarine in ages.”
One can still buy decent pears.
It is rare to get a decent peach or nectarine from a store. If a peach smells at the grocery store, it will generally be OK.
Peach trees can still produce mature fruit that will ripen OK.
Tomato plants that produce full-size fruit have become genetically modified beyond grower control.
“I haven’t bought a pear or peach or nectarine in ages.”
I have the same problem here in SW Wisconsin! Once in a great while we’ll get a shipment of Georgia Peaches at a local farm stand where it’s not uncommon for fist-fights to break out over them, LOL!
I have two pear trees (Clap’s Favorite) but they’re a few years from producing, yet. I’m rebuilding a decent orchard at my ‘new’ farm (1906) after leaving an established orchard behind at my 1900 farm. ;)
While I have a 4’x8’ asparagus bed here now, I sure do miss my established 40’ row of the stuff that I also had to leave behind. I did bring some of that root stock with me; I’m no fool! :)