"moghouse" wrote ...
When I left my last house one of the neighbours was so glad to see me
go that he gave me a seedling walnut tree.It was a little chap about
six inches high. Now it has grown a bit (about 30 feet) and is covered
in walnuts. What I would like to know is how to get the nuts from
little gree plums on the tree to ripe walnuts that we can eat.

In the last two years they have all disappeared somewhere between the
two events! Do I blame my little "friends" the grey squirrels again?

Without a doubt, and they will plant them all around so you and your
neighbours will have lots of little Walnut trees every year.
Old chap next door used to trap the squirrels and ......... Still didn't
succeed in getting many nuts to full size.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London