Kitchen

[happycat]

Thanks for the info, ladies. There is no comparison in the taste of these from the farm and those I have gotten at sams.

[Tigriss]

We get them from the yard, yep....we have them in the front and back yards.  Around here people use them for Christmas money.  They sell what they pick out of their yard and/or use them for their cooking or for the family.  People will go onto your property to pick up your pecans to sell them, so people do get pretty touchy over them.  They do fetch quite a price.  You can get several grand from a few trees worth of pecans.  Pecans are expensive and will get higher due to the hurricanes in the south.  There were many mature pecan orchards that were destroyed.  Pecan trees lose limbs easily.  One orchard can take about 10 years before you can start really collecting pecans to make a profit, until then, you are just putting money into them.  Also since Asia and Europe discovered pecans, the demand has been very high overseas and the prices even higher.  Don't look for the prices to get cheaper any time soon!  Many people down here have pulled up older blueberry bushes to put down pecan trees.  Blueberries and pecans are retirement plans around here.

[Tigriss]

Forgot to mention, every three years or so your trees won't produce much if any. It cycles like that, at least down here in south Georgia and most of the southeast.

Pecan trees have to be shook by machine to get the pecans at the top. That is why you really have to wait for them to get a size, otherwise you are trying to use ladders and climb to hand pick and risk loosing limbs. Then you use a tractor with a sweeping like attachment that sweeps up the nuts and blows out the leaves and things. You also have to spray for what many people call silk worms (webworms) which eat the leaves. They form these nests in the trees and lower production and really make a mess.