It takes 10 years for the two-needle pinyon to reach its mature height so if you plant one now, you will have a steady supply of pine nuts soon enough.

They suck the sap from the tree, weakening it and causing the needles to brown and fall off. Left untreated, it will result in a very thin, sad looking tree. Eventually, the scale will kill the tree.

A bonus of growing pinyon pines is their production of large pine nuts, which is just another term for the edible seeds of pine trees. Most pine nuts commercially sold in the United States come from ...