Re: Heartwarming Behind the Scenes Reactions

Pecans like to be fertilized with zinc sulphate, my SO says. It really paid
off on our crop last year. I have about six pecan trees (I built my house
on an acre and a half of family farm land that used to be a pecan orchard
and a horse pasture.) But some years, pecans just aren't meant to be. A
big blow, or, I dunno, sunspots or neurosis, and the dang things don't form,
or don't ripen, or don't fall, or fall rotten, or whatever.

Last year's crop was really too big. My SO's father would come over and
help pick them up, then take them home and crack them. Then he'd bring them
back to our house and my SO would pick them. It was ridiculous -- our
living room was full of 10 gallon buckets and bags of half-cracked pecans,
and my SO's fingers were reduced to bleeding stumps. We put pecans in
*everything* now.

ep ooooooooof


"Cindy Murray" <c1ndyluhu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is the 5th summer we've lived in this house and the pecan tree hasn't
done squat for us. I'm so BUMMED!

The first year, we moved in right after the pecans were ready, but they
were already falling and the previous owners just let them lie on the
ground and rot. We tried to gather what we could, but they were so mixed
in with the rotting ones that we finally gave up and tossed all of them.

The second year, a series of bad storms knocked them all down long before
there was anything to harvest. Then we had two years of severe drought.
The pecans inside were just shriveled up and dry. YUK! We do water, but
this tree is HUGE and there's no way we could water it ENOUGH.

I'm afraid to look this year. I haven't heard hubby complaining about
pecans on the ground when he mows, but the branches aren't sagging like
they usually are when there's pecans, so maybe they all got knocked off
early in the season. :( I'd sure love to have some fresh pecans. I cook
with them all the time. One of my favorites is to put them in my homemade
pesto in lieu of pine nuts. DELICIOUS! Oh, and they're really good in a
yummy rice dish I make....


Cindy
Smobriety comes to: 1Y 7M 2W 3D 0H 47Mns $-Saved to date: $2338.40
Cigs not smoked: 11840


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