The first pic is one of our pear trees and as you can see they had quite alot of fruit on them...all in all it has been a good year for the pears.
Second Pc is Dh on the afron picking the tops of the trees, these bigger trees were here before MIL brought the property on 1956...so they are very old trees.
Pic three are pears in *sweat boxes* after coming out of the coolroom. We pick them green, they go into the coolroom for 7 days and then sit in the shed for another 7-10 days to ripen.
Pic four is a stack of trays cut and ready to be put into the sulphur tent to be sulphured.
They get about 72 hours of sitting in our sulphur tent and being sulphured then we stack them singularly on pallets....see how there are two trays side by side,,,well we will split them and put just one stack (of 25) per new pallet. So instead of one stack of 50 on one pallet there will be two stacks of 25 on two pallets)
Hope you liked this information.
I am going down later and will take photos of the stacks drying and some that we have scraped off into bins ready to take to Angas Park fr processing.....stay tuned
char......now im off to scrap:)
3 comments:
you back online and posting. Keep the pics of the new place coming.
The pears are interesting arnt they.
I would be no good I would slice myself all the time :)
Nise
wow, looks like hard work - and the new house looks great, but I don't envy you cleaning that tile floor!
Why do the pears get "sulphured"? I'd be interested to hear more bout the stuff you do on the farm, please!
Char I came to look at the pics of the chooks (who are cute btw) but I am so inspired by the pears. How awesome to know what they go through before we get them at the supermarket!
Thanks to your DD for modelling for the cutting pics.
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