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 ...

A person touches the bottom of a pear as it hangs on the tree. - Ingwervanille/Getty Images If you haven't been fortunate enough to grow and care for a pear tree in your backyard, you might not know ...

If you haven't been fortunate enough to grow and care for a pear tree in your backyard, you might not know that the pear is a bit of an unusual fruit. European pear varieties like Bartlett, Bosc, and ...