{"product_id":"kieffer-pear-tree","title":"Kieffer Pear Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe toughest, most forgiving pear you can grow — a heavy-bearing heirloom that shrugs off heat, cold, and fire blight while loading its branches with crisp, spicy-sweet fruit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kieffer is a classic American heirloom, a cross between the European pear and the hardy Asian sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia). That sand-pear blood is its secret: it gives Kieffer remarkable vigor, disease resistance, and a firm, slightly grainy flesh with a distinctive aromatic, spicy-sweet flavor. These are old-fashioned \"cooking\" or \"canning\" pears at their best — superb for baking, preserves, butters, and spiced pears — and they sweeten nicely off the tree if you let them mellow indoors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy growers choose the Kieffer\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFamously dependable.\u003c\/strong\u003e Kieffer is one of the most reliable, productive pears in America, prized for bearing big crops year after year with very little fuss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWide adaptability.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardy in zones 4 through 9, it tolerates both hard winters and Southern heat better than most European pears, with low chill requirements that suit warmer regions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFire blight resistance.\u003c\/strong\u003e Its sand-pear parentage gives it strong natural resistance to fire blight, the disease that destroys many other pear varieties.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLargely self-fruitful.\u003c\/strong\u003e Kieffer can set a crop on its own, though a second pear variety nearby will reliably increase your harvest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLong-keeping fruit.\u003c\/strong\u003e The firm flesh stores for weeks in a cool spot and holds its shape beautifully when canned or baked.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a mature 15 to 25 feet tall and a relatively narrow 5 to 10 feet wide, Kieffer makes an upright, long-lived orchard tree — a single specimen can supply a family with fruit for canning, a productive anchor for a backyard orchard, or a hardy choice where finicky pears have failed before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Live Good Logistics","offers":[{"title":"4-5 ft.","offer_id":46111775588488,"sku":"EDI-PEA-KIE-45-5G","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"6-7 ft.","offer_id":46111775621256,"sku":"EDI-PEA-KIE-67-5G","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"5-6 ft.","offer_id":46111775654024,"sku":"EDI-PEA-KIE-56-5G","price":109.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4648\/6408\/files\/Kieffer-Pear-Tree.jpg?v=1781490470","url":"https:\/\/www.natesgardensupply.com\/products\/kieffer-pear-tree","provider":"Nate's Garden Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}