Fruit trees

[serenavanderwoodsenn]

AIBU to hate when people don’t harvest the fruit from their fruit trees!? Currently sat looking out my window at neighbours pear tree. Huge gorgeous pears that are just there and they haven’t taken any all summer! Similarly with a house on the school run, beautiful apple tree that over hangs on the street. They just let the apples fall and rot all over the path. It seems such a shame.

Id love to be able to have all that fruit to make crumbles and pies for the freeze for the winter or Atleast donate it!

Have you considered asking your neighbour for pears?

Opposite problem. We have dwarf fruit trees and our Labrador eats every single one. He eats them before they are even fully ripe so we have no chance at all.

Yes, I hate it too. I was recently on holiday with friends and we visited a farm park with a beautiful old orchard where nobody was harvesting the fruits from the 20 or so varieties of trees that were there. We picked some truly amazing plums as they were all going to windfall and rot otherwise, and would have had some apples if they'd been ready. On the plus side, one of my friends revealed she'd never ever picked fruit right from a tree and eaten it then and there, and she loved it! I pick fruit from community woodlands and orchard near me, and will also ask for windfall quinces from someone who lives nearby and who doesn't get throgh all their fruit.

We have a plum tree, one neighbour has an apple and the other a pear. We swap harvests. We also put stuff out for people to take. It's not unusual to walk around our area and see fruit on garden walls 'free to take' at this time of year. There's still LOADS left on the trees. Could definitely think that we weren't making use of what was there. However the squirrels are enjoying it, as are some of the birds and I'm sure a poo plethora of other critters.

I would ask them, they would probably be happy for someone to do the work of picking so they don't end up with the mess. If you aren't comfortable doing it in person just pop a note through their door with your number to respond.

I would if they were nicer! Incident involving a play date and 4yo from our house getting a head injury while in the care because they were being negligent. Safe to say we do not get on anymore😂

I love this!

Ask if they’d mind you picking some. We have a giant pear tree in the back garden but never pick any of the fruit. I don’t particularly want any pears and I don’t have the spare time to pick them purely to give them away, but wouldn’t have an issue if a neighbour wanted to bring a broom and a bucket over and knock some down.