Re: things falling from trees

Three pounds? Yikes, and I thought the pecans beat me up. And you can't
even use the bois d'arc fruit for anything can you? At least I can send
pecans to people for their holiday baking!!


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:50:56 -0600

>Yup! Those fruits can weigh up to three pounds, and a large tree can 
>drop a hundred in an hour if there has been a hard freeze.
>Cathy
>On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 01:33 PM, Pamela J. Evans wrote:
>
>> Is that what they call a bois d'arc down here Cathy?  Cuz if so - 
>> scary.....
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:19:44 -0600
>>
>>> Forget walnuts, try being around a female Osage orange!
>>> Cathy
>>>
>>> On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 07:55 AM, Lynda Young wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah, Pam, be glad you only have pecans to worry about raining down.  
>>>> In
>>>> the fringes of our woods we have walnut trees.  This time of year we
>>>> have to be very careful where we work - those nuts hitting the ground
>>>> sound like hand grenades and I know they could do SERIOUS damage if 
>>>> one
>>>> of us got konked in the head by one.  They're truly dangerous.  We're
>>>> going to have to move a Japanese maple planted well away from one
>>>> walnut
>>>> - a lofty limb extends far enough out that the maple has had several
>>>> branches broken by falling nuts.  And to make matters worse, we 
>>>> aren't
>>>> even getting any edible nuts from them!
>>>>
>>>> Lynda
>>>> Zone 7 - West TN
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>>>> Behalf Of Pamela J. Evans
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 7:08 PM
>>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] wagons and carts
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Amen Bonnie! Considering I garden 10 1/2 months a year and every day
>>>> (when it isn't raining) and do all my own lifting and toting and
>>>> whatnot, I should be a heck of a lot thinner than I am. I raked the
>>>> yard
>>>> twice today and when that Norther blew in an hour or so ago, it blew 
>>>> so
>>>> many leaves off the trees and the roof, you can even tell I did it.
>>>> Picked up about 5000 more pecans too - green trug is half full. When
>>>> the
>>>> wind picks up they come down like hail and beat the tar out of you.
>>>> Good
>>>> thing I've got a hard head. This may be the last day I get to garden 
>>>> in
>>>> shorts. Bummer.
>>>
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>> Kemp TX/zone 8A
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