Throughout much of the southwestern United States,pecan treesflourish. A tough and hardy tree, pecan trees can live and produce nuts for as long as 300 years. Pecan trees enhance the environment and can provide additional income from the sale of the nuts.
如果你购买了一处有山核桃树的房产,无论是原生的还是成熟的果园,你都面临着管理和变现山核桃林的任务。即使是一棵健康、成熟的山核桃树也能为家庭景观增添价值,管理良好的本土山核桃林年复一年地提供丰富的营养丰富、美味和松脆的山核桃。山核桃树还为鸟类和其他野生动物提供阴凉、隐私和食物来源和庇护所。
Pruning Pecans
If you are reclaiming and bringing back beauty and new growth to a native pecan grove, prudent pruning and clearing are required. No matter if you are cultivating trees for nut production or timber harvest, standing trees should be thinned to a maximum of 25-to-30 trees per acre: crowding leads to misshapen trees and decreased nut production.
The largest member of the hickory family, pecan trees need room to grow. A sizeable tree, pecan trees reach a mature height of up to 50-to-60 feet tall with a spread of up to 40 feet at maturity.
Pecan trees have a tendency to be somewhat brittle. When loaded with the nuts the weight can cause branches to break under the weight of the harvest. It is prudent not to build a home or other homestead structures under pecan trees where branches may fall and cause damage.
Thinning trees reduces wind damage, and discourages the spread of disease. Prudent management of a pecan orchard requires removing of underbrush and dead or decaying pecan trees. Remove multi-trunked pecan trees or trees subject to scab disease.
理想的薄山核桃林允许大约50%的阳光在阳光明媚的仲夏日中午到达森林的底部。如果山核桃树已经成束或成组生长,只要它们能从外部获得充足的阳光,它们就会茁壮成长。
精明的管理山核桃树需要不断修剪,以保持树的结构完整性。经过激烈的修剪,山核桃树需要三到五年的时间来表现出最好的产量,因为他们发展新的侧枝,并填补了受大力修剪影响的区域。
Seek The Advice Of A Professional Arborist
If you have a substantial amount of trees, you will likely want to engage the services of a professional landscape service with extensive experience in pecan crop management. A professional pecan buyer and harvest company can provide the necessary heavy equipment and manpower to safely and efficiently accomplish the task.
通常,商业山核桃买家会评估你的作物的质量,同意收获的条件,并支付你预先商定的每磅作物的数量。在商业收获之后,采摘山核桃将为冬季的享受和与家人和朋友分享提供大量的山核桃。
Value Of Pecan Wood
在清理和修剪山核桃树林时,要节约木材。干燥和老化的山核桃木材是高度寻求的木工,工匠和工匠。从家具到地板,山核桃木是一个辉煌的颜色和细纹理的硬木的例外美丽。
Pecan wood chips are also a valuable commodity: ideal for use in meat and fish smokers. If you are clearing an old native pecan grove to ready a building site, consult a specialty wood buyer or lumber company to obtain a bid on a purchase of the timber harvest.
Care And Cultivation
Pecan trees thrive with plenty of water. If rainfall is inadequate, or where the soil is lighter and relatively dry, pecan trees require supplemental watering. Pecan trees grow best in well-drained, nutrient-rich sandy loam soil. Pecans can, however, grow in most types of soil as long as the soil is not soggy.
The best ground cover for an orchard is a cool-weather species that doesn’t compete with trees for nutrients, water, or require constant mowing. An under crop of culinary thyme or mint adds a delightful fragrance to the landscape, attracting bees and butterflies to encourage pecan tree pollination. Groundcover such as crown vetch orclovercan be planted to add nitrogen to the soil.
为了促进山核桃旺盛的生长和丰富的坚果产量,山核桃树需要施肥。为了确定营养需求,取一根带有叶子的小树枝,到当地的县推广办公室进行分析。树叶样本将决定土壤是否需要补充钾、磷、锌、镍或锰,以使其最茂盛和高产。
如果山核桃树害虫,如鹤虱,山核桃壳蠕虫,山核桃象鼻虫或臭虫入侵您的景观,需要一个鼓风喷雾器。如果你计划自己管理你的山核桃树,这是一个重要的多功能工具,添加到您的家庭维护工具棚。
The most important management tip to keep in mind is early harvest and deliberate control of wildlife depredation.
Pecan Trees: Further Reading And Resources
The Pros and Cons Of Backyard Pecan Production, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
Grow Your Own Pecans, The New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Pecan Trees For The Home Or Backyard Orchard, University of Georgia Agricultural Extension
Cultivation Of Pecans, South African National Department of Agriculture.
Growing Pecan Trees In Missouri, University of Missouri Agricultural Extension.
Growing Pecans In North Carolina, North Carolina State University Agricultural Extension.
30多年来,马琳·阿菲尔德一直是一位充满激情的作家,她在书中描写了她对自然和一切自然事物的热爱。
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