Smorgasbord behind my house

[b116757]

The annual fall smorgasbord has started behind my place. The smooth bark hickories are dropping nuts the Chinkapin and dwarf Chinkapin are dropping acorns a few red oaks are beginning to drop. The native pecans have begun to drop also, very heavy year for my pecan trees this year. Also I was walking the timber yesterday after work and seen something sticking out of the ground that looked metal I bent over and picked it up and it was an old brass spur with steal wheel that is almost completely rusted away as where the leather straps rotted away. Thought it interesting at least.

 

[SwampCat]

Do you use many of your native pecans. I consider them better tasting than the bigger commercial varieties - but takes a lot of picking time to get a little meat

 

[b116757]

I don’t pick very many of them to eat but I would agree on the taste thing they are better to eat but a lot of work to fool with. I’ve started planting a few Kanza grafted trees that they claim are a very good tasting paper shell. I’ll know in 10 years maybe if that’s true or not I know some of the commercial pecan orchards in Kansas swear by the Kanza verity for taste and adaptability to our area but have never tasted one to know for sure. I do know the Kanza isn’t as big as some of the other grafted pecans but they claim its superior flavor is worth the smaller nut size they are still larger than natives however from my reading.

 

[hillrunner]

The spur is cool, I love finding treasures like that.

 

[b116757]

Hickory

 

[bigboreblr]

Nice find there.

Those pignut hickories? The one by my house the squirrels mess with, but not much if any deer activity on them.

 

[b116757]

Yes and I’d agree only squirrels eat them I have piles of the nuts back there where I haven’t thinned them out some to release more favored trees.