Last year was a frustrating pecan year for many – the early first freeze in October caused a lot of shucks to not open up, reducing yields. Pecans are a beautiful tree and a delicious crop but are a ...

Lots of folks want to know how to get their pecan tree to produce a crop each year. Unfortunately, it’s not practical or even realistic. Afterall, commercially produced pecans are mostly grown in ...

There are a lot of things to keep in mind for pecan tree care in the spring. Right now is the time to consider a foliar zinc spray and nitrogen fertilizer application, make plans for irrigation, and ...

If you are from Western NC, you probably call them pe-kahns, and if you are from Eastern NC you likely call them pe-cans. No matter how you say it, pecan trees are becoming more popular in home ...

It’s the holiday season, and pecan growers just can’t seem to get enough of their nuts. Whether in pecan pie, butter pecan cake, pecan toffee, pecan bars, pralines, chocolate chip pecan cookies, pecan ...

One of the things that I comment on fairly frequently is the eternal desire of people, such as myself, to examine a tree and say definitively whether or not it is structurally stable. Interestingly, ...

Q: One of our native pecan trees simply laid down four years ago. It’s been the backdrop for many family and friend photographs since. What can we do to prolong its life? A: Looking at the more ...

Those fast-growing shade trees all have serious fatal flaws that make them messy, weak, ugly, and risky. Most of us wouldn’t put those words in our list of attributes when we went shopping for a new ...