On 2013-11-01 09:21:48 +0000, Martin said:

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:24:39 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

On 2013-10-31 09:21:21 +0000, Martin said:

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:03:35 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

Our own fairly young tree produced about 30 walnuts and we had some
today. Normally, I'm not mad about walnuts because they dry my mouth
and can irritate my throat. But these were white and sweet and
delicious. A treat!

Have you got brown fingers now?

No. Ray shelled them and the actual nut is white!

We had a large walnut tree in our garden, when I was child. It's
removing the green outer layer that covers the shell that turns
fingers brown.

I'll get Ray to hold his hands out for inspection! ;-)
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 2013-11-01 09:29:06 +0000, David Hill said:

On 31/10/2013 15:27, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-10-31 14:59:20 +0000, David Hill said:

On 31/10/2013 10:05, 'Mike' wrote:
How long did it take your tree to start fruiting? We've planted 2 over
the years, the first only has a few after 20 years. (In fairness it was
nibbled nearly to the graft by deer shortly after planting. My fault.)
The second was a larger pole stage planted in 03, it just sat there
for 8
years, with a few leaves but no stem growth. The past couple of
years it
is starting to put on some size, but no signs of fruit yet.

A woman, a Dog and a Walnut tree,
The more you beat them the better they be.

Come over here and say that! ;-)

Forgot you had dogs.

;-)
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:59:20 +0000, David Hill wrote:

A woman, a Dog and a Walnut tree,
The more you beat them the better they be.

Come to think of it, I have a neighbour who beats his dogs. His wife
left him recently, but he does have walnuts. So there you are!



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Gardening in Lower Normandy

On 2013-11-01 11:38:28 +0000, Martin said:

On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 11:34:46 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

On 2013-11-01 09:21:48 +0000, Martin said:

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:24:39 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

On 2013-10-31 09:21:21 +0000, Martin said:

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:03:35 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

Our own fairly young tree produced about 30 walnuts and we had some
today. Normally, I'm not mad about walnuts because they dry my mouth
and can irritate my throat. But these were white and sweet and
delicious. A treat!

Have you got brown fingers now?

No. Ray shelled them and the actual nut is white!

We had a large walnut tree in our garden, when I was child. It's
removing the green outer layer that covers the shell that turns
fingers brown.

I'll get Ray to hold his hands out for inspection! ;-)

While you are checking that his finger nails are clean :-)

Plus the back of his ears and that he has a clean hanky! ;-) Last time
he went for a hair cut, it was so long that I told him to get an
estimate!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 2013-11-01 11:38:56 +0000, Martin said:

On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 11:35:20 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

On 2013-11-01 09:29:06 +0000, David Hill said:

On 31/10/2013 15:27, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-10-31 14:59:20 +0000, David Hill said:

On 31/10/2013 10:05, 'Mike' wrote:
How long did it take your tree to start fruiting? We've planted 2 over
the years, the first only has a few after 20 years. (In fairness it was
nibbled nearly to the graft by deer shortly after planting. My fault.)
The second was a larger pole stage planted in 03, it just sat there
for 8
years, with a few leaves but no stem growth. The past couple of
years it
is starting to put on some size, but no signs of fruit yet.

A woman, a Dog and a Walnut tree,
The more you beat them the better they be.

Come over here and say that! ;-)

Forgot you had dogs.

;-)

and a carpet beater.

He's watching telly.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 2013-10-31 15:26:53 +0000, Sacha said:

On 2013-10-31 09:44:18 +0000, Emery Davis said:

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:03:35 +0000, Sacha wrote:

Our own fairly young tree produced about 30 walnuts and we had some
today. Normally, I'm not mad about walnuts because they dry my mouth
and can irritate my throat. But these were white and sweet and
delicious. A treat!

Hi Sacha,

Fresh walnuts are nothing like dried, delicious indeed!

How long did it take your tree to start fruiting? We've planted 2 over
the years, the first only has a few after 20 years. (In fairness it was
nibbled nearly to the graft by deer shortly after planting. My fault.)
The second was a larger pole stage planted in 03, it just sat there for 8
years, with a few leaves but no stem growth. The past couple of years it
is starting to put on some size, but no signs of fruit yet.

-E

I'll have to check when this one went in, if any of us can remember.
It's probably about 15' or so tall though. It had about a dozen nuts
on it last year so it's definitely improving. Like you, my parents
found that one they planted took a long time to fruit and I think
that's pretty normal. If anyone remembers about ours, I'll post it.

Ray has hunted his memory and thinks between 15 and 16 years ago, maybe
a very little longer. At first, he gave his stock answer of 'about 10
years' and when I said 'so since we were married?', he said 'Oh! No.'
We were married 13 years ago! As I said earlier, he remarked that it
only a few nuts two years ago, a few more last year and quite a lot
more this year. I'm afraid we have no idea if there's anything special
about the variety, but I will say that it's on fertile soil that gets
very wet very quickly!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 14:20:01 +0000, sacha wrote:

Ray has hunted his memory and thinks between 15 and 16 years ago, maybe
a very little longer. At first, he gave his stock answer of 'about 10
years' and when I said 'so since we were married?', he said 'Oh! No.' We
were married 13 years ago! As I said earlier, he remarked that it only
a few nuts two years ago, a few more last year and quite a lot more this
year. I'm afraid we have no idea if there's anything special about the
variety, but I will say that it's on fertile soil that gets very wet
very quickly!

Thanks (and to Ray), I think it must have something to do with the poor
soil here. Prhaps I'll give ours a good feed of powdered seaweed this
winter.



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Gardening in Lower Normandy