Chestnut Hill Outdoors offers several varieties of pears to help landowners meet the year-round nutritional requirements for wildlife on their land.

The key to attracting and holding more and healthier wildlife species, especially deer, on your ground is providing the right type and amount of food to meet their year-round nutritional needs. Food plots are one way, but mast orchards are becoming increasingly popular and help fill in nutritional gaps left by other applications.

Soft mast is often overlooked yet can be an important alternative or supplement to other applications like food plots or hard mast orchards. That’s why Chestnut Hill Outdoors offers several varieties of pears that will cover a wide time-span, particularly the gap between when herbaceous vegetation is maturing and dying, and hard mast starts to drop.

Varieties like the Flordahome Pear provide fruit as early as July and August in southern Plant Hardiness Zones (8-10). The Pineapple Pear reaches peak production in August and September in Zones 5 – 9. Then the Spalding and Kieffer Pears take over from September through October in similar zones. Several other varieties may be more suitable to your particular soil, moisture and climate conditions, and all are listed and described on the Chestnut Hill Outdoors website: www.chestnuthilloutdoors.com

Use the link to plug in the zip code where you will be planting.

USDA Plant Hardiness Plant Zone Map Link

Pollination is essential to mast production. Non-grafted varieties require multiple trees for pollination. Therefore, they and even grafted, self-pollinating varieties will be more productive the more trees you plant. By planting several varieties, you can widen the window of attractiveness your land holds for wildlife.

When it comes to pear orchards for attracting deer, the real star is Dr. Deer Pear. This variety was discovered by renowned whitetail expert Dr. James Kroll in Texas. They’re ideal for fall wildlife orchards because they have small fruit in clusters and tend to hold onto them well into late fall, even until Thanksgiving and after, at the height of hunting season. The Dr. Deer Pear is grafted and thus self-fertile. Still, the more you plant, the higher the mast production will be for each tree.

DR. DEER PEAR FEATURES

  • Height at Maturity: 20′-30′
  • Spread: 10-15′
  • Tree Form: central leader
  • USDA Zone 5-9
  • Bloom: spring
  • Fruit Drop: November – December
  • Soil Adapted to upland, we if only seasonal and well drained or sandy clay or loam
  • Soil pH 6.0 – 7.0 
  • Light requirements: Full sun
  • Pollination: Self-fertile, grafted. Each additional tree will increase pollination for better mast production. 

Chestnut Hill is the best place for you to purchase your food plot and deer attractant plants because they offer a large selection, their plants are specifically bred to attract deer, and they offer customers different sized plants at different levels of growth.

Chestnut Hill is the best place for you to purchase your food plot and deer attractant plants because they offer a large selection, their plants are specifically bred to attract deer, and they offer customers different sized plants at different levels of growth.

For more information, please visit WWW.CHESTNUTHILLOUTDOORS.COM

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