Weeds--Almond, Pecan

This really isn't a weed, but it is in my yard (this one was at the Garden of the Sun). I have an almond tree and every fall the blue jays help harvest the nuts. They tuck the nuts all over the place (when we had a shake roof, the jays would push the nuts under a shingle, where it would sprout!) and usually in the ground somewhere. Then they sprout--all over the yard. Pecans are the same way. Although I don't have a pecan tree, someone in my neighborhood does. The almond whips are not too hard to pull out, but the pecans are. If you want to have nut trees, it would be best to buy them bare-root and plant them where you want them. Otherwise, you don't know how good of a nut tree you will have if you just let the birds plant them.