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Its exciting around our farm when its pecan season its time for picking, cracking, peeling and selling our crop for extra money for our farm as well as saving it for cooking later on for the year. All the animals love pecans as well, with the goats eating the leaves, the sheep eating broken fallen pecans and the chickens eating the left over bits after I cracked them. 

I have been getting tons of hits on my website during this season. Hopefully I will be able to help you out I know most of you are looking for the pecan picker upper which is linked below plus some pictures. I hightly recommend it, it may cost a lot but its sturdy and works really well its worth the investment. Please let me know what you are looking for and sign my guest book so I can add it for other people to find easier later on.

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We have over 60 plus full grown pecan tree's on our property. Its a small little orchard compared to to other larger ochards around our area which range from 400 trees on up.  

 

This will be our third season it seems like we have a really good crop every other year. Every day starting the last week of Sept-Dec I was out side after chores picking up pecans with my pecan picker upper picture below the "nut wizard".

 

It saved a lot of back breaking work especially one year year when I pulled my back from moving the turkey coop. I was out there every day even with my back messed up, this Pecan Picker upper allowed me to pick them up and even deposited them in a bucket with ease. We also bought an attachable metal attachment that attached to most buckets and you place the "Pecan collector" over it and turn the pecans come out into the bucket, and the best part is you never had to bend down!

 

My father also uses it a lot he is a Senior Citizen and its hard for him to bend, with these he feels useful in helping us pick. He even uses the other side of the Pole to knock some out of the tree hehehe.

 

I also use it to pick up the bad pecans to get them out of the way and put them in a pile to take to the compost. They have different sizes I use the larger one and my father/& kids uses the smaller one.

 

Enjoy my site!

 

Sam aka Frugalcountrymom

 

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Having pecan trees are sometimes hard work. They are not very hardy trees, they break off really easy which leaves me tons of branches to pick up. I dont worry about the leaves since we have so much wind out here. One day they fall and the next they are gone...

 

The great part is when we do have time we will use the chipper shredder we have and use the chips from the pecan trees to line our garden up so weeds wont grow. I am doing something new this year and saving the logs for not only BBQ for us but I want to give away logs to the older folks around my town this winter who have fire places or those old wood burning stoves. I have an older friend I met recently that knows all the older community she used to do the meals on wheels program.

 

Taking care of the pecan trees as far as watering them is very easy for us. We are blessed to have a canal near them so the roots soak up the water near the canal and we never have to water them. I have a friend that has over 500 tree's she says her husband pays around $94 a month to water the orchard during the dry season. If you don't have water you may want to find out how much its going to cost you a year before planting them.

 

They make wonderful shade trees!

 

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Pests:

 

Web worms seem to be a pest last year, we couldnt spray them in fear that they would hurt our bee hives under the trees, but recently we have found some sprays that will take care of this problem but wont hurt the bees we tried it this year had a local sprayer fly by and spray. It cost us around $125 for meds and cost of flight. The spraying worked our bees were ok and the webworms starting falling off that day and all the next week, the webs started to fall down by the end of the week. One pest control wanted to charge us $30 a tree at that price I could have bought my own sprayer!

 

 

Stink Bugs: These seem to be a problem this year. After I took care of the webworms now I have these attacking my trees. I am not sure what to do about them beside squash them now when I see them. I will have to do some more research on it and let y'all know.

 

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Pecan Business: 

 

It is a good business to be in and I plan to plant a few more. I don't sell it to the pecan people that buy them cause it seems its not worth it. They buy them for around here for 45 cents a lb then sell it for $4.99 a pound which is not fair to me at all. I am trying this year to sell and barter myself. We will see how it goes. We plan to have a lot of pecan pies for Thanksgiving :) I have been bartering a lot this year for fresh cheese and Walnuts can't wait to find other barter people.

 

 

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A little pecan Texas History

 

Web Worm Fact Sheet "Click Here"

 

Here is the pecan picker I use "nut wizard". I have seen others on Ebay but they look wierd and not very durable. This one is very durable if my kids can use them and not break them they are worth buying! 

 

If your looking for a bigger one. Here is one we want to buy in the future that you can attach to your lawn riding mower these are for the larger orchards.

 

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10 ounce bag $6.00

1 lb of whole pecans $2.00 pick your own. If you live in our area and would like to go pecan hunting.

 

To find out the postal go to http://postcalc.usps.gov/ type in my zip of 78059 and how many pounds you want

 

I accept Paypal

Money orders & Checks though checks will be cashed and cleared before I send off the pecans.

 

 

If your looking to barter here is what I will barter for:

Raw cow/goat milk locally

Hard cheese from either cow or goat has to be made from raw milk

Dried Salmon

maple syrup from your trees

Mix dry fruit
Honey we have our own hive but can always use some more
Jar of fresh green beans from this season
Dried Apples/Apricots
Fox Fire books looking to get a few more of these for hubby we only have two of them

If not listed email me I might consider:

 

 

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For Seach engine: Pecans

Pecan roller Pecan Gatherer Pecan Wizard Pecan collector

Pecan container Pecan harvester

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Pecans on drying rack                         Daughter with pecan picker

Pecans peeled for sale!                       Pecan orchard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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