Plant two pear varieties for best pollination. The flowers of most pear varieties can't pollinate themselves. Instead, they must cross-pollinate with a different variety to develop fruit. A different ...

With pears, timing is everything. The most widely planted and consumed pear in America is the Bartlett. You’ll find them hard and green at our markets from July to September. These are unripe, ...

Matt Hemly shows a Bartlett pear still on a tree after harvest season while walking through one of the family orchards in Courtland in October 2015. The Hemly family has been growing pears for six ...

There are thousands of varieties of pears across the globe, but only a handful appear regularly on our grocers’ shelves. But which pear should you pick for which purpose? Varieties like Comice will ...