Showing posts with label pecans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pecans. Show all posts

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Heres Whats Pickin on Our Little Farm

It's been a Pea Pickin Time Lately:)
Our Chad, the Backbone of Our Garden
seems to be run over with peas  these days
we never do get the rows
far enough apart but once he burns the wholes in the plastic there is no going back!!
And when you are doing that Project we totally forget how Beautiful and Big those plants get and just how far those runners will go !

Our sweet Go Getter loves to shell he usually oops to babysit Sophia while the pickin is being done but
 he still gets his fair share:)

Our Rows are just short enough this time to pick and bring in a huge pot of Peas for Supper with a huge plate of Cornbread ,its so YUMMY
sometimes we choose to have only that for Supper!

Such a Hard working young Man

The Butterbeans have started filling our basket


                  We grew 2 different kinds of beans this year Kentucky
Bush and Italian Flat Beans both have been wonderful Producers

The kentuckeys we pick and bring straight to the Frying Pan I saute with Olive Oil , butter and Garlic and Onions that we Grew early Spring and add 2 huge Portibella Mushrooms
MMM there is never Enough of this Recipe 

These are the Italian Flats
Funny thou I call them Leather Britches to the kids but they are not but they get a chuckle out of it.

A Few of these Little treats are still coming in
the Okra has gone to a full Blown Cutting every other Day

LOL, this is how Farm Kids  look after Mom has Worked them
A nap anywhere will DO !
A few new Pecan trees have come up and we have been protecting them for transplanting to the back Field
( well if we can keep Hubby from lawnmowing them !)
But this one had me  totally STUMPED I had never seen a Pecan Leaf this big ,so I had to call an Expert IN to take a look and tell me if it really was a pecan tree.
MY DAD
he said in all his years of growing Pecan trees he has never seen leaves this HUGE !
This one we will diffenatley Baby to see how it grows and Produces down the years.

This is what is going on in OUR Little Farm Pickin,
May You have A Blessed Day
Love From My Smith Gang

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

SmithGangs Pecan Season 2011-2012

We Love Pecan Season on our SmithGang Farm
It takes ALL Our Black Buckets to Work the Season
We were so Blessed this Pecan Season
Bucket after Bucket was filled
We have 6 Producing Trees Now So "UP" the Boys go to
       SHAKE,SHAKE ,SHAKE !
Way up HIGH ,More than a MOM wants lol
Then I go to work
this is when my Gang does alot of chatting under these trees
This is a Roller I use ,NO Backbending Thank the LORD
This is why I call HIM the "The BackBone"
Our AWESOME CHAD
He can pick them up so Quick:)

Truly LOVED THIS MOMENT

Everyone has Fun with the Black Buckets even BABY SOPHIA:)
This is how I spend most my time cleaning them up for market.
Not so great having a bad back but it works for me ..
We take them to Market to be inspected and weighed, we were so Blessed with our Final weight of the season being 771 lbs.

Then this year the Boys added 7 new trees to the Farm
 Chase loves to drive our lawnmower wagon so much he is Our "GO GETTER "
Lots of fresh Fertilizer added for the next year


 Hubby adding 10-10-10 for our next years Season,mmmm is that a white BUCKET !! ?
where did that come from lol?