Growing Nut trees
Veggie Offline
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The hazel trees in the garden and growing wild, are laden with nuts this year. The best year I can remember.
Does anyone grow Nut trees - Walnut, Chestnut, Hazel, Cob, Almond?
Nuts are a good source of protein, maybe we should be growing more of them. I'd be grateful for your experiences please.
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We’ve got a few hazel here. Very rarely see any actual nuts on them. I was actually studying them yesterday to see if I could see any growing. I couldn’t.
Got a couple of youngsters growing in our new woodland area.
I do know of 1 walnut in the area. Again never seen any nuts on it.
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.
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Moth Offline
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The ground under the wild hazels around here is already littered with nuts that have been optimistically tried by squirrels (young ones I presume, older ones are wiser) and discarded because as yet the nut is not developed beyond apple pip size. By the end of August there won't be any left on the trees to pick.
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Scarlet Offline
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My old walnut came down a few years ago but I still have some seedlings popping up!
Lots of hazel bushes here but we never get a look in due to squirrels. A few years I did get walnuts but the squirrels have quadrupled in numbers.
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My parents had a pecan that overhung their yard from next door. We would get sacks full. I must have eaten a fortune in pecans as a kid. I also lived near loads of almond orchards and there was a walnut processing facility in my town.

What kind of nut trees grow in the middle or North of England? Do nut trees come on dwarfing stock like fruits? I have so many questions...

Our garden is tiny and it's a definite no to plant a big tree at the allotment. We love snacking and baking with nuts though and they keep so much better than fruit (easy to store and don't need to add sugar!).
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Most of my hazels are in the hedge. I haven't planted any, they've just appeared and they pop up all over the place, thanks to the little guy with the bushy tail
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JJB Offline
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No nuts (except me) don't care for them, except cashews.
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Moth Offline
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(25-07-2022, 08:39 AM)JJB Wrote: No nuts (except me) don't care for them, except cashews.

Cashews ain't nuts, they're seeds. And they are related to poison ivy and poison oak, so if you occasionally find yourself with a rash round your ankle, it's from eating too many raw cashews  Cry

   

A cashew "apple" (edible) and it's one cashew seed. Very strange looking fruit!
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JJB Offline
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(25-07-2022, 09:15 PM)Moth Wrote:
(25-07-2022, 08:39 AM)JJB Wrote: No nuts (except me) don't care for them, except cashews.

Cashews ain't nuts, they're seeds. And they are related to poison ivy and poison oak, so if you occasionally find yourself with a rash round your ankle, it's from eating too many raw cashews  Cry



A cashew "apple" (edible) and it's one cashew seed. Very strange looking fruit!

Well I never, you learn something new every day. Notwithstanding the truth, they'll always be nuts Smile  I don't eat them very often so not much risk of a rash, so that's good.
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PS why is the rash round your ankle?
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