A moan about supermarket fruit

Every week, I buy what looks like a delicious bowl of healthy fruit. Several days later, it's either hard as a bullet or full of tiny annoying flies. If I want to eat fruit immediately, I'm forced to buy expensive, 'ready to eat' fruits. When did this happen?? For decades, I bought and ate fruit immediately - sometimes snaffling a piece or two on the way home from the supermarket [does anyone else do this, with fruit and pastries?]. You almost have to babysit pears and plums for example - I'll swear they wink at each other, before slumping into an unhealthy-looking puddle. The only ones who don't mind are birds, who love my cast-off grapes, nectarines, plums and bananas.

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  • Blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, plums, tomatoes and apples have all come from the garden this year.

    The pear tree became diseased and had to be removed.

    I can happily live without fruit though.

    I am at present buying extra apples and pears for the foxes. 

    They aren't fussy.

    FoxFox

  • We started the summer with a prospect of lots of fruit on the trees until the long spell of dry weather and had disease on one of them. The tomatoes had the most success. In past years we have had difficulty getting them to ripen. 

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