Hawggardville

Got up to the farm for the first time since last week's storms yesterday. I had a few apple trees ill used, they'll heal up, but lost a large white oak by the shop.
We got a good kill down in the bean plot, but the water from the spring and seeping up is going to keep us from planting for quite a while.
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The last large storm we had took down one of my bigger white oaks. I don't have many in the first place so I was not happy at all. I know you were not happy to see it down.
 
I have given up on apples because of Japanese beetles. Pears grow well in this area and insects leave pears alone. Sorry to see a large White Oak go down.
 
Brushpile said:
I have given up on apples because of Japanese beetles. Pears grow well in this area and insects leave pears alone. Sorry to see a large White Oak go down.
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BP, we added sevin to the fungicide we sprayed yesterday just for them and in case the grasshoppers are as bad this year. Come to think of it, I should have sprayed the chestnuts too.

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Merle Hawggard said:
BP, we added sevin to the fungicide we sprayed yesterday just for them and in case the grasshoppers are as bad this year. Come to think of it, I should have sprayed the chestnuts too.

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I sprayed for years, until the trees got too big, and there are so many. You're right about the Chestnuts also getting hammered!
 
I seen you had pecans in another thread and didn't want to interrupt their grafting thread so I'll ask here. What pecans are you growing? I'm wanting to add a few by the house here im gonna try Kanza maybe leaning towards a Major too. You may be too far south to give me advice but thought I would throw it out there mostly chasing disease resistance. I was considering trying to t bud them this summer haven't found anything online to say otherwise. Are you growing any of the shellbark or shag bark hickory cultivars?
 
They are two trees that, while they make small pecans, they make loads of them.
I do have a grainger shagbark hickory growing I did probably 4 years ago. Still not producing yet. Also a henry if it's still growing. I haven't checked on it this year.
I've never liked the taste of the tame pecans much. They're much easier to pick out, but that's about the only advantage I see.
Look around for native pecan, the ones that when you have them cracked turn the paper bag oily. Those are the ticket for pie and a great place to set up camp under come squirrel season!
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I don't know much about pecans especially around here I don't think I've even seen a wild one. The reason I was drawn to the hickories is because they have a good taste and like you mentioned most of them are just wild ones people have discovered. I think the Major pecan is like that and it's from Kentucky. I see a lot of hickory around here but no pecan I may just be oblivious to them and not know. I think I know of a few some folks around here moved off of their home place before the corp of engineers flooded the lake in the 60s.
 
DLH said:
I don't know much about pecans especially around here I don't think I've even seen a wild one. The reason I was drawn to the hickories is because they have a good taste and like you mentioned most of them are just wild ones people have discovered. I think the Major pecan is like that and it's from Kentucky. I see a lot of hickory around here but no pecan I may just be oblivious to them and not know. I think I know of a few some folks around here moved off of their home place before the corp of engineers flooded the lake in the 60s.
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Seems like I remember a nursery in KY that had quite a few pecans at one time, one called green river. That could be the place to check if it's still open or you could order wild pecan seedlings then graft what you want on them after a year or two. I know at least around here Stuart pecans hardly ever fill out all the way so I'd stay away from them. I could send you scions from an older papershell that's in my yard too. Not sure of the variety, but it's one of the few that fill out and taste almost as good as a wild pecan.

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Hate to see the big white oak go down...I have lost a few large trees like this over the years...
Looks like a good kill on the sprayed plot. Should be good to go when mother nature lets you plant it...
 
Merle Hawggard said:
I've never liked the taste of the tame pecans much. They're much easier to pick out, but that's about the only advantage I see.
Look around for native pecan, the ones that when you have them cracked turn the paper bag oily. Those are the ticket for pie and a great place to set up camp under come squirrel season!
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I agree. Seedlings make the BEST pecan pies. Mouth drooling just thinking about it.
 
A few pics from today. Been busy with work so it's been a couple of weeks since I got up to the farms. Looks like we'll have a few apples and may have a dunstan this year.
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TreeDaddy said:
Merle,

Does butterfly weed have any wildlife value?

I just identified a few on my place in east texas

bill
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It's a milkweed and thats all monarch butterfly catapillars will eat so I try and protect it. It had quite a few bees working it too.

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Got are beans in on Thursday hoping for rain tomorrow. Also looked at the fruit trees and they are looking good

Williams pride has one apple, gala looks pretty good, Dayton had a few (forgot to get a pic of Dayton), but winesap is the best looking tree this year.
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