Selecting pecan trees is very important when a homeowner is trying to decide what to put in the yard. The homeowner must ...

Last week, I talked about several species of trees that have the ability to lift a house slab, if they are close enough to it. By the way, the heavier the house, the harder it is for a tree to disturb ...

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 ...

Driving around North Florida and South Georgia I love looking at pecan groves. The shade they provide in the summer always looks so inviting. Even in the fall when they lose their leaves the orchards ...

Pecans are beautiful, popular landscape trees in the Concho Valley. I get many questions asking how to get a better crop from a home landscape or small orchard planting – they are wonderful native ...

Cooler weather, especially winter, is perfect for planting trees and shrubs in south Louisiana. Planting in winter gives the trees several months to establish roots before they begin active ...

Q. Why did so many pecan trees in my area end up with dead branches and even completely dead trees? We don’t have deep or high-quality soil, but the pecans ...

TIFTON, GA—Pecan trees, like many fruit trees, have a tendency to bear fruit in cycles, producing a large crop in one or two years, followed by one or two years with little or no crop. This cycle, ...

Pecan trees are shaking and shimmying as growers harvest pecans in Missouri, says University of Missouri Extension horticulturist Michele Warmund. During harvest, mechanical shakers are clamped around ...