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growing a walnut tree
Sitting here munching away on a bowl of walnuts got me thinking i would like
my own tree. Anyone know if they will grow in a zone 5 (Canada)? -- Lynn |
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Lynn wrote:
Sitting here munching away on a bowl of walnuts got me thinking i would like my own tree. Anyone know if they will grow in a zone 5 (Canada)? Yes, but you will wait quite a while before they produce. Go see your local nursery/garden center in the spring. Good luck! |
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great! I don't waiting, the winter time is a great time to make a wish list for the spring -- Lynn "Wolf Kirchmeir" wrote in message .. . Yes, but you will wait quite a while before they produce. Go see your local nursery/garden center in the spring. Good luck! |
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"Lynn" wrote:
Sitting here munching away on a bowl of walnuts got me thinking i would like my own tree. Anyone know if they will grow in a zone 5 (Canada)? The ones you are eating are English Walnuts. You can't grow them. They are not that hardy. There is an hardy (zone 5) edible walnut called Carpathian Walnut. I have never tried it, but your local garden centers may know where to get them. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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Thanks Stephen adding Carpatian walnuts to my spring wish list -- Lynn "Stephen Henning" wrote in message news The ones you are eating are English Walnuts. You can't grow them. They are not that hardy. There is an hardy (zone 5) edible walnut called Carpathian Walnut. I have never tried it, but your local garden centers may know where to get them. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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Black Walnut, Juglans nigra, grows in zone 5. It is a beautiful but messy
tree. It also attracts squirrels by the thousands. Not suitable for small, urban yards. "Lynn" wrote in message ... Sitting here munching away on a bowl of walnuts got me thinking i would like my own tree. Anyone know if they will grow in a zone 5 (Canada)? -- Lynn |
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"Honeybee" wrote:
Black Walnut, Juglans nigra, grows in zone 5. It is a beautiful but messy tree. It also attracts squirrels by the thousands. Not suitable for small, urban yards. Not the best for eating either. The English and Carpathian are the best eating and cooking walnuts. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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"Stephen Henning" wrote in messageowadays Not the best for eating either. The English and Carpathian are the best eating and cooking walnuts. I agree yet I found that first sentence jarring ... cannot let it pass. Perhaps the word "eating" needs clarification. I grew up in a farming community in the central US. As a child I earned pocket money by hulling, cracking and picking black walnuts. Very labor intensive but, hey, it was darn good money in those days. I doubt if they are available now, but to me, no other walnut compares. Comparable would be hickory nuts. (I supplied them also.) --- Karl Warner |
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"Karl Warner" wrote in message ... to me, no other walnut compares. Comparable would be hickory nuts. I agree with you, black walnuts are the best tasting of all but the hardest to shell out. I also agree that hickory nuts are just as good, but even harder to shell out. After eating these all my life, I just don't like the walnuts that come from the retail store at all - like eating cardboard in comparison!! This year was a bumper crop of both black walnuts and hickory nuts in North Georgia. Tom J |
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"Tom J" wrote to me, no other walnut compares. Comparable would be hickory nuts. I agree with you, black walnuts are the best tasting of all but the hardest to shell out. I also agree that hickory nuts are just as good, but even harder to shell out. After eating these all my life, I just don't like the walnuts that come from the retail store at all - like eating cardboard in comparison!! This year was a bumper crop of both black walnuts and hickory nuts in North Georgia. Ahh, delightful... glad to hear that some still exist. It has been over 70 years since I wandered south of the Ohio River. Apparently not all your woodlots have been converted to asphalt or soybeans. Do youngsters still go to school in the Fall with brown stained hands? Forgive me for running this off-thread. It is a lonely Christmas morning and I am wallowing in nostalgia. One last question: Do you know if anyone even attempts to harvest and market black walnuts? -- Karl |
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As kids we arrived at 2nd grade dyed up as savages with black walnut
hulls. No doubt today they would expel you and attempt to imprison your parents for such non PC behavior. |
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Well there are some inaccuracies in your statements. Carpathian walnuts are
the same species as English walnuts, just a hardier variety of the same species found growing in Eastern Europe. Black Walnuts are great for eating and rich in oils - but have a very hard shell and outer hull - some people have found they do best by driving their cars over the outer hulls to separate out the walnuts. "Stephen Henning" wrote in message news "Honeybee" wrote: Black Walnut, Juglans nigra, grows in zone 5. It is a beautiful but messy tree. It also attracts squirrels by the thousands. Not suitable for small, urban yards. Not the best for eating either. The English and Carpathian are the best eating and cooking walnuts. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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"presley" wrote:
Well there are some inaccuracies in your statements. Carpathian walnuts are the same species as English walnuts, just a hardier variety of the same species found growing in Eastern Europe. Black Walnuts are great for eating and rich in oils - but have a very hard shell and outer hull - some people have found they do best by driving their cars over the outer hulls to separate out the walnuts. Most commercial walnuts are not species but hybrids. In California they use 30 different hybrids of English Walnut (Juglan regina). In addition to these commercial varieties, there are also different strains of Juglan regina including the German, Italian or Carpathian which are hardier and do well in colder climates. The original (English) variation of the species planted in England came from Persia or Iran and is much more tender. Hardier strains were collected from high in the Carpathian Mountains, which extend from Slovakia and southern Poland southeast through the Western Ukraine to northeast Romania. The Persian/English strains will grow in the northeastern US where I live but nut production is very poor or non existent. Harsh winters leave a lot of dead branches. However, the Carpathian strains will do quite well. They are usually grafted on English walnut or black walnut rootstocks. For a nice read on this visit: http://www.songonline.ca/nuts/persian_walnut.htm A parallel situation exists with Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Christmas trees which are grown from seed collected in many different states at many different elevations from Canada to Texas and from sea level to over 6,000 ft. They are all the same species, but they are quite different. By knowing latitude and altitude of where the seed was collected, you can predict where it will do well. The taxonomic handling of such variation is often handled by forming subspecies or groups. The difference is not enough to form different species, but quite significant when looking for source material for different areas. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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Well I'm still confused by your terminology. I took the following definition
of hybrid from a biology link: hybrid (Science: biology) An offspring of parents from different species or sub-species. An organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey". Produced by crossbreeding. Commercial varieties of walnuts are not hybrids, since they all come from the same species. They are cultivars, or varieties - meaning, that some chance-mutation with a better taste, longer shelf-life, or some other distinguishing feature, showed up on a tree somewhere and was subsequently propagated by grafting or some other technique. In some few cases, there might be hybrids between sub-species - but I'm not sure that the Carpathian walnuts are sufficiently different genetically from the persion walnuts to merit sub-species title. If they were, some different cultivar might originate by crossing by hand pollination Carpathian with Persian walnuts. However, I doubt that has happened. Some species, like the walnut, have wide climate adaptability, and over thousands of years, the best-adapted plants have been more successful in surviving in any given climate. Therefore, it makes sense that walnut trees and their seedlings that have survived for 2000 years in northern Europe would have more tolerance for cold than walnut seedlings from trees in Iran. I'm really just nit-picking, because, for practical purposes, people in the Northern half of the US must use descendants of Carpathian walnuts if they want to get nuts, which I think we both agree on. "Stephen Henning" wrote in message news "presley" wrote: Well there are some inaccuracies in your statements. Carpathian walnuts are the same species as English walnuts, just a hardier variety of the same species found growing in Eastern Europe. Black Walnuts are great for eating and rich in oils - but have a very hard shell and outer hull - some people have found they do best by driving their cars over the outer hulls to separate out the walnuts. Most commercial walnuts are not species but hybrids. In California they use 30 different hybrids of English Walnut (Juglan regina). In addition to these commercial varieties, there are also different strains of Juglan regina including the German, Italian or Carpathian which are hardier and do well in colder climates. The original (English) variation of the species planted in England came from Persia or Iran and is much more tender. Hardier strains were collected from high in the Carpathian Mountains, which extend from Slovakia and southern Poland southeast through the Western Ukraine to northeast Romania. The Persian/English strains will grow in the northeastern US where I live but nut production is very poor or non existent. Harsh winters leave a lot of dead branches. However, the Carpathian strains will do quite well. They are usually grafted on English walnut or black walnut rootstocks. For a nice read on this visit: http://www.songonline.ca/nuts/persian_walnut.htm A parallel situation exists with Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Christmas trees which are grown from seed collected in many different states at many different elevations from Canada to Texas and from sea level to over 6,000 ft. They are all the same species, but they are quite different. By knowing latitude and altitude of where the seed was collected, you can predict where it will do well. The taxonomic handling of such variation is often handled by forming subspecies or groups. The difference is not enough to form different species, but quite significant when looking for source material for different areas. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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I live in a rural area so no problem there ticking off the neighbors with a messy tree. -- Lynn "Honeybee" wrote in message .. . Black Walnut, Juglans nigra, grows in zone 5. It is a beautiful but messy tree. It also attracts squirrels by the thousands. Not suitable for small, urban yards. |
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