On my home from taking Clayton back to Davis, I stopped an took this shot.
I'm embarrassed to say, I really don't know what the crop is, but given the fact that the name of the exit is "Nut Tree Road", that it must be SOME sort of nut...
It's hard to tell without leaves or flowers - there are so many different orchards in the area. The Nut Tree used to be quite a nice roadstop eatery when I was a kid. Central Valley farmers could even fly in to the airstrip to have dinner, then out again.
Pecans comes to mind. There is also a reason for painting the trunks but I am so old I forgot. I am not saying for sure these are pecan trees but that seems like it might be.
I, I say son. What you got yourself there is a walnut tree, son.
They take the heartier root stock of a black walnut tree and graft on an english walnut for the fruit wood. So you get a rough barked bottom from the black walnut and a smoother barked top from the english walnut. The white stuff is white wash. It stops the bark from sun burning/scalding, stopping the tree from prematurely coming out of dormancy, and/or stops the trunk from checking due to un-even heating on frosty winter days (the sun heats up one side of the trunk and it expands faster than the cold, shady side causing the wood to split/crack/check.
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It's hard to tell without leaves or flowers - there are so many different orchards in the area. The Nut Tree used to be quite a nice roadstop eatery when I was a kid. Central Valley farmers could even fly in to the airstrip to have dinner, then out again.
ReplyDeletePecans comes to mind. There is also a reason for painting the trunks but I am so old I forgot. I am not saying for sure these are pecan trees but that seems like it might be.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a nice week.
Abraham Lincoln in Brookville, Ohio.
They usually paint the trunks with a compound that keeps insects from burrowing into the bark.
ReplyDeleteI, I say son. What you got yourself there is a walnut tree, son.
ReplyDeleteThey take the heartier root stock of a black walnut tree and graft on an english walnut for the fruit wood. So you get a rough barked bottom from the black walnut and a smoother barked top from the english walnut. The white stuff is white wash. It stops the bark from sun burning/scalding, stopping the tree from prematurely coming out of dormancy, and/or stops the trunk from checking due to un-even heating on frosty winter days (the sun heats up one side of the trunk and it expands faster than the cold, shady side causing the wood to split/crack/check.