Has anyone any experience with Walnut 'Lara'?

For example, how quickly would it crop, is it self fertile? I'm interested
in both Walnuts and Cobnuts, but have very little space to fit them in, so
need self fertile, and small, bush type trees.

regards, mbb

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:58:57 +0000 (UTC), "mbb"
wrote:

Has anyone any experience with Walnut 'Lara'?

For example, how quickly would it crop, is it self fertile? I'm interested
in both Walnuts and Cobnuts, but have very little space to fit them in, so
need self fertile, and small, bush type trees.

Don't walnuts take decades to produce nuts? we had a walnut tree in
our garden when I was a kid, it dominated the garden. On the other
hand I have been in California where they grow them commercially and
the trees were apple tree size AFAIR.
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, mbb wrote:

Has anyone any experience with Walnut 'Lara'?

For example, how quickly would it crop, is it self fertile? I'm interested
in both Walnuts and Cobnuts, but have very little space to fit them in, so
need self fertile, and small, bush type trees.

We have a Webb's cob. It's quite small.

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mbb wrote in message ...
Has anyone any experience with Walnut 'Lara'?


No, but these guys might have the answers:
http://www.walnuttrees.co.uk/
Times to yield in UK climates look a bit ambitious to me.

For example, how quickly would it crop, is it self fertile? I'm interested
in both Walnuts and Cobnuts, but have very little space to fit them in, so
need self fertile, and small, bush type trees.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the walnuts grow eventually
afaik to be serious size trees. Cobnuts are inherently much smaller, though
they grow at about the same rate when young,
Cobnuts can be kept small by pruning.


--
Anton

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:32:08 +0000 (UTC), anton
wrote:


mbb wrote in message ...
Has anyone any experience with Walnut 'Lara'?


No, but these guys might have the answers:
http://www.walnuttrees.co.uk/
Times to yield in UK climates look a bit ambitious to me.

For example, how quickly would it crop, is it self fertile? I'm
interested
in both Walnuts and Cobnuts, but have very little space to fit them in,
so
need self fertile, and small, bush type trees.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the walnuts grow eventually
afaik to be serious size trees. Cobnuts are inherently much smaller,
though
they grow at about the same rate when young,
Cobnuts can be kept small by pruning.


Walnut trees grow to be about the size of a good sized oak. Somewhere
between 30 and 80 ft high.
Not the thing for a small garden. I think you can keep them in check a bit
but are still going to be around the size of an apple tree after not too
long.

Tim wrote in message ...
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:32:08 +0000 (UTC), anton
wrote:


mbb wrote in message ...
Has anyone any experience with Walnut 'Lara'?


No, but these guys might have the answers:
http://www.walnuttrees.co.uk/
Times to yield in UK climates look a bit ambitious to me.

For example, how quickly would it crop, is it self fertile? I'm
interested
in both Walnuts and Cobnuts, but have very little space to fit them in,
so
need self fertile, and small, bush type trees.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the walnuts grow eventually
afaik to be serious size trees. Cobnuts are inherently much smaller,
though
they grow at about the same rate when young,
Cobnuts can be kept small by pruning.


Walnut trees grow to be about the size of a good sized oak. Somewhere
between 30 and 80 ft high.
Not the thing for a small garden. I think you can keep them in check a bit
but are still going to be around the size of an apple tree after not too
long.

Just remembered- I think walnuts are sometimes planted
in root control bags which keeps them pretty small (and
helps induce early fruiting?)

--
Anton

"mbb" wrote in message
...
Has anyone any experience with Walnut 'Lara'?

For example, how quickly would it crop, is it self fertile? I'm interested
in both Walnuts and Cobnuts, but have very little space to fit them in, so
need self fertile, and small, bush type trees.

Forget walnuts if you don't have much room.

I have grown both and the walnut is at present about 30 feet high and 30
feet across,
it is about 25 years old and has been fruiting for about 18 years, although
for many
years I got very little from it due to the squirrels which are now a little
under control.

The cob grew to about 20 feet high and 20 feet across, it could have been
kept
smaller but the size didn't worry me, I have had to drastically reduce it's
size as my
neighbour took exception to it growing over her garden allthough her
boyfriend did
like the produce it left on his side of the fence.

Alan
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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

Mike Roscoe wrote:

: 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.

Unripe walnuts must be loosened from the branch by shaking or beating
the tree. That seems likely to be the origin of the rhyme.
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Tim Tyler wrote:

Unripe walnuts must be loosened from the branch by shaking or beating
the tree

I've seen considerable discussion about this, and some fruit and nut trees
will indeed bear sooner if you beat their trunk with a stick. Mechanism
uncertain, but the theory is that the tree thinks it's going to die, and
had better reproduce itself first!


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Tim Tyler wrote:

Unripe walnuts must be loosened from the branch by shaking or beating
the tree

I've seen considerable discussion about this, and some fruit and nut trees
will indeed bear sooner if you beat their trunk with a stick. Mechanism
uncertain, but the theory is that the tree thinks it's going to die, and
had better reproduce itself first!


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