I adore fruits! I feel great from that kind of food. If more than 50% of my food is fruit (I’m not allowed to eat meat, so almost all of the rest of my food are vegetables.) I have an incredible amount of energy and I need very little sleep. Fruit is my food. That is why I love every fruit tree in my yard and am sincerely grateful to the every fruit that they produce.
I never treat them either by chemical or natural something what should be against bugs or whatever, nor do I fertilize them. They are all old varieties, very durable.
It all begins in June with red currants and forest strawberries. They are followed by sour cherries and at the beginning of July with summer apples which I really adore to eat. After that, aronia is coming with it’s show. From aronia berries juice I really feel great. Now there are early plums and pears. And it is not over, of course. There will be soon another apple mature, vineyard peaches and than dune. Only autumn plums strike this year.
I adore this fruit sequence. I plan to plant apricot and cherry, this fall or next spring. I'm really very happy about it! And I have fig trees also, but are still too young to have fruits. I take care all the time, prune them, so that they do not become shrubs. I want true fig trees. With beautiful leaves and sweet fruits.
Fortunately there was a lot of rain this spring and in the beginning of the summer, so all the fruit trees were abundant. Since pear tree is full of fruits right now, I show you photos of my sweet pears.
I will make a compote for winter from its fruits, according to one old (and best) recipe.
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I have to leave something to the wasps. Those ones living in a nest in my garden, if you remember… 😉
Thank you for your attention!
@andrijana
You are back! :) I started to worry...
I love pears too. We used to have a huge, old clapps pear tree in a garden we rented... It had so many fruits we coudn't eat them all. Those are my favorite pears of all time.
Then we tried to plant one in our garden, but it never had many fruits.
I had to find a way how to catch up with some problems, but now when I realized I'm gonna turn into the pear for sure (no one can eat them so much without consequences), everything became just fine. ;)
Okay.. hope all is good!
Becoming a pear is the way to go :)
I am glad to see you back! Your fruit looks wonderful! Why are you not allowed to eat meat?
I can tell you in one word or write you a story.
I'll write you a story. A short version.
I have tiny kind of body. From always. When I was a kid every summer my mother would take me to the village to my grandmother to eat eat eat and get fatter. 😂 My grandmother and I were eating huge amounts of food and... nothing. I was still tiny.
But my mother was not satisfied. She always thought something was wrong with me (in last few years finally she accepted me just as I am in every way) and all that was reflected in her view of my appearance.
Every day (!!!!!!) she was telling me that if I was fatter I would be stronger.
So .. when I was 25 I told myself OK, maybe she is right, I will give the best of myself to get fatter.
(47 kg on 168 cm is my normal weight)
I started to eat enormous amounts of food.
Two kebabs and one pizza for a lunch, and do not ask me how many breakfast and dinners I had.
All that overeating lasted one year.
Then I got some diseases. Nothing special, but anyway...
I got many allergies, more angina than before, and --gout--!
And no gram more. I was still 47 kg.
...
When I realized what am I doing to my body...
I changed totally the choice of food . It was real journey how to become healthy and not hungry with fruits and vegetables (and small amount of grains, cheese...).
I had to pay a price ... to accept that I have body that cannot be on 'normal' weight, and if anybody do not understand that, it is not my problem.
My mind is too alive. My emotions are too dancing-like all the time. And I just have to move all the time.
It is normal that it is reflecting to my body.
And I'm happy. And 100% healthy. -> now.
Except that I cannot eat meat anymore. Gout makes problems, pain in hands and knees that I do not want. Even that I loved to eat meat very much, I just don't do that anymore. I do not want to risk. I like to move. I like to make many things with my hands. Moving is to precious to me to risk it with some pork.
I could eat chicken meat, but I never liked it. It has taste like tasteless chewing gum.
I'm not vegan. I'm eating eggs (from my neighbor chickens), and yogurt and some light kind of cheese and fish sometimes. ... And have perfect blood tests. Everything is fine. Just no meat, and have to be careful with grains (they should be fried, not just cooked in water).
That was short version.
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Ah, gout is a terrible affliction. I am glad that I haven't had it but I would also do anything to avoid it if I did. I am glad that you have found what works for you. Chicken is terribly tasteless although free-range can be better
Yes, that is true. My grandmother's ch. was the best. She used to put a big dish on the table that looked like was full of bones only. But the meat attached to those bones was delicious. It was cause those chickens were really running around her garden. And yes, there were no grass growing there...
That's the one problem with keeping chickens, they turn gardens to dust
It is very good that you are here again!
I'm glad that all is well with your health!
Your pears are beautiful!
Their fruits are always the most delicious!
And my columned pear (which I planted in May) gave the shoots, then they wilted ...
Then the pear again gave new sprouts and again they wilted ...
We have are now very hot!
I do not know if she cope with the heat, but I can not help her ...
My pear is actually old one. I got it when I bought this house. But I wonder, maybe is better to plant a pear tree in early autumn, than in spring?
Yes, I'm back! :) I'm happy to be here again :)
If you have a cold winter - then it is better to plant a pear in the spring.
I am also glad for your return!