August 2024 issue "None beach" raised in Yokohama

Pear flower

　Pears in Yokohama were cultivated in the Tsurumi River basin in the early Taisho era. In a time when there were still many floods, pears seemed to have been chosen because they were relatively resistant to floods. Later, when the Pacific War began, orchards were turned into potato fields due to food shortages, and pear gardens almost disappeared.
　In the 1980s, pear cultivation resumed in Kuroganecho, Kohoku Ward (now Aoba Ward), Shinyoshida-cho, Kohoku-ku, and Shimo-Iida-cho, Totsuka Ward (now Izumi Ward). From 1941 to 1943, a tourism orchard project was implemented mainly in the Nakazato area (Midori Ward and Aoba Ward), in which consumers were able to take advantage of their close location. From 1946 to 1955, a fruit park setting project was implemented with the aim of fostering urban agriculture and securing recreational green spaces for citizens. About 20 ha of pear gardens of "Kosui" and "Hosui" were created. Furthermore, in the tourism and agriculture promotion project that began in 1981, pear gardening has spread to the whole city.
　Initially, "Hamanashi" was not well-known, and in addition to installing signboards and advertising newspaper flyers, some farmers ran mini SLs in pear gardens and publicized them. The notation "Hamanashi" was also various, "Hamanashi" and "Hamanashi", but it seems in the latter half of the Showa 50s that the notation was unified as "Hamanashi" as it gradually increased its name recognition and promoted branding .

Fruit picking workshop

　From late July to early August, harvesting of early varieties begins. Some farms sell "Akemizu (outside site)" and "Korei (outside site)" grown by Kanagawa Prefecture. The mainstream variety "Kosui" is harvested before and after the tray. Even in the same Yokohama city, the harvest time is different, and early and late districts may differ for about 10 days.
　Harvesting of Hosui, a mainstream variety similar to Kosui, begins about 10 days after Kosui. Until about 20 years ago, "Hosui" was sold before and after Respect for the Elderly, but now it is sold from late August to early September.
　Cultivation of pears continues to be difficult due to global warming. The flowering time is about one week to 10 days earlier, the fruit grows without rain during the time when the fruit grows, and the plum blossoms are actually damaged by locally falling hail, and the product value of pears is lost in some years.
　Recently, a disability fruit called "foot disease", in which a part of the pulp becomes translucent and becomes softer, has occurred. There is no problem with eating "mitsu" itself, but farmers stop selling at stores as soon as they find it because the taste and texture deteriorate. Initially, the pears of "mitsu" had to be discarded, but in recent years, they have been reborn as new products, such as collecting and purchasing them at JA Yokohama and using them as materials for sweets and alcoholic beverages. Was.
　Overcoming various difficulties, it is lined up in the garden of a beach Shiga farmer cultivated with great care. Please enjoy it this summer.

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