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"mbb" wrote in a message:
Has anyone any experience with Walnut 'Lara'?
For example, how quickly would it crop, is it self fertile?
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I'm surprised that no one has remembered the old walnut tree rhyme,
"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the
better they'll be." An old farmer told me that in order to
get walnut trees to crop quickly, people would often bruise the bark
by hitting with sticks. Whether he was pulling my leg I don't know.

Mike Roscoe