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?

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"moghouse" wrote in message
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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?

Dunno :-((

We didn't succeed on the Walnut tree we had in our garden on Leicester.

Nobody else did after we left either, because there are now two blocks of
flats on the land.

Mike

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?

Most of our walnuts disappear too. One of the culprits seems to be
crows. They seem to like them semi-ripe when still green. Presumably
they are ripe enough for them to enjoy but soft enough to peck.

--
David in Normandy.
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subject line, or it will be automatically deleted
by a filter and not reach my inbox.

"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

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moghouse writes

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?

It is thanks to *my* friends the little grey squirrels that I have a
seedling walnut tree which I have just brought over to France, so don't
knock our furry friends.

Er, yes I think you probably can blame them.

David

--
David Rance
writing from my netbook in Le Mesnil Villement (14)

moghouse writes:

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.

The squirrels bring me fresh walnuts from one of the neighbours
tree. I generally make a couple of slits in the green down as far as
the hard shell (if there isn't a hard shell yet then look up recipes
for pickled walnuts instead) inside, then leave them to dry out. Once
they're dry the fruit will peel off, leaving you with the familiar
nuts.

Wear thin gloves. As mentioned in all the best fairy tales where the
princess needs to disguise herself as a peasant girl, walnut juice is
a very persistent brown stain.

Anthony

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.

How long has it taken to get to fruiting size?
--
Kay

In article ,
K 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.

How long has it taken to get to fruiting size?

10-15 years, ignoring the occasional nut on smaller trees.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On Jun 22, 9:19*pm, wrote:

How long has it taken to get to fruiting size?

10-15 years, ignoring the occasional nut on smaller trees.

It is now 19 years old (last birthday), but it has had some nuts on
for a few years now, but never as many as this year.

What a strange fruiting year it is, my Victoria plum is so burdened
with fruit it may collapse but on several varieties of apple there are
scarcely any fruit to be seen. Even the reliable regulars seem to be
having a rest.

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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:05:53 -0700 (PDT), moghouse

wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:19*pm, wrote:

How long has it taken to get to fruiting size?

10-15 years, ignoring the occasional nut on smaller trees.

It is now 19 years old (last birthday), but it has had some nuts on
for a few years now, but never as many as this year.

What a strange fruiting year it is, my Victoria plum is so burdened
with fruit it may collapse but on several varieties of apple there are
scarcely any fruit to be seen.

Plenty on the apple tee next door, sadly nothing will eat the things. Even the
green parakeets gave up.

Even the reliable regulars seem to be
having a rest.

It's a very good year for roses too, but our geraniums are not doing very well.

Neither are ours. Large leaves but no flowers. I thought it was just
me.
--
June Hughes

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?

You could always make pickled walnuts from the green ones.

--
Jeff