Pear Trees Blooming, Asparagus Starts April 20

   Asparagus season is delayed this year due to the cool early spring.  Asparagus season will now start about April 20, as shown in the updated sidebar at left under Crop Sales Seasons.

   We'll have some asparagus for sale for the next 8 weeks or so, until early June.  Asparagus is limited so you do need to phone 620-597-2450 a day or two ahead and order it.  Asparagus is still just $2.78 per pound + tax, harvested.

  We still have many harvested, cracked pecans for sale, now until about June.  We had a very good pecan crop this past fall, and fewer people come to buy them from mid-Jan. to late May, so we probably will not sell out of pecans before late June or early July.

   We sell cracked pecans in 4-pound bags, which are over 75% pecan kernels and under 25% shell fragments.  Each bag has the equivalent of 6 pounds of in-shell pecans, and when you pick out the pecan kernels, you get 3 pounds or more of nutmeats.  Each bag costs $18.52 + sales tax. 

Asian pear trees have many blossoms so are especially showy.

   Our pear orchard is now in beautiful bloom, and ornamental crabapple and redbud trees are blooming around our yard.  We hope to have good crops of all our fruits this year, but we will have to do heavy fruit thinning in May, since we haven't had any hard frosts to kill excess flowers. 

   We're still looking for 1 or 2 more college student summer workers, to start in early May as soon as college lets out for the summer.  We hire college students who can work Mon. to Sat. mornings, 6:30 or 7 a.m. to 12 noon, all during the summer.  See our March 30 blog post for more details.

   From Dec. 1 to May 31, we’re open by appointment.  That means to phone 620-597-2450 a day ahead and leave a message on our answering machine with your name, day and approximate time you’ll come, and what you want to buy.

This is the view from our sales building, with ornamental crabapple and redbud trees blooming along our driveway.

   Our phone rings in our house, so I'll answer it if you call while it's cold out, and I'm working on the computer as I am now.  If you call while the weather's warm, we're working in the orchards, so leave a message on our answering machine.  We have no phone in our sales building or pecan building and we don't carry cell phones with us.  So we'll get your message when we come in from working in the orchard, sales building or pecan cracking room.  That's why you need to call a day ahead.

   For payment, we accept cash and checks (from any state), but NO credit cards or debit cards.  We have no phone line to the sales building, and no card reader.  Please bring your checkbook or enough cash to cover the amount you want to buy.  Thanks.