I have a walnut tree approx 13 years old that needs light pruning. Could
anybody tell me the best time and way of going about this task. I live in
East Anglia and the tree is a good bearer of nuts most years.

Diane Robertson

Neil Robertson wrote:

I have a walnut tree approx 13 years old that needs light pruning. Could
anybody tell me the best time and way of going about this task. I live in
East Anglia and the tree is a good bearer of nuts most years.

We'll have no baring of nuts round here, thank you.
--
Nick Wagg

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:00:23 +0000 (UTC), "Neil Robertson"
wrote:

I have a walnut tree approx 13 years old that needs light pruning. Could
anybody tell me the best time and way of going about this task. I live in
East Anglia and the tree is a good bearer of nuts most years.


A woman, a dog and a walnut tree;
The more you beat them the better they be.


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I have a walnut tree approx 13 years old that needs light pruning. Could
anybody tell me the best time and way of going about this task. I live in
East Anglia and the tree is a good bearer of nuts most years.

Diane Robertson

I subscribed to this newsgroup thinking I would be able to obtain sensible
answers to my gardening questions. How silly I was if what I see are the
only replies to date!

"Neil Robertson" wrote in message
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I have a walnut tree approx 13 years old that needs light pruning. Could
anybody tell me the best time and way of going about this task. I live in
East Anglia and the tree is a good bearer of nuts most years.

Diane Robertson

I subscribed to this newsgroup thinking I would be able to obtain sensible
answers to my gardening questions. How silly I was if what I see are the
only replies to date!

"Neil Robertson" wrote in message
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"Neil Robertson" wrote in message
...
I have a walnut tree approx 13 years old that needs light pruning. Could
anybody tell me the best time and way of going about this task. I live
in
East Anglia and the tree is a good bearer of nuts most years.

Diane Robertson

I subscribed to this newsgroup thinking I would be able to obtain sensible
answers to my gardening questions. How silly I was if what I see are the
only replies to date!

The word "nuts" seems to evoke uncontrlllable paroxysms of laughter in some
folk. The fact
that no one else replied with sensible guidelines simply means that nobody
in the ng has sufficient experience of handling walnuts to risk replying.

Please don't unsubscribe. There is a lot of excellent advice and good fun
floating
around here.

Franz

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:52:30 +0000, Neil Robertson wrote:


"Neil Robertson" wrote in message
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I have a walnut tree approx 13 years old that needs light pruning. Could
anybody tell me the best time and way of going about this task. I live in
East Anglia and the tree is a good bearer of nuts most years.

Diane Robertson

I subscribed to this newsgroup thinking I would be able to obtain sensible
answers to my gardening questions. How silly I was if what I see are the
only replies to date!


Walnuts are not a big part of my experience but don't prune in the spring
- it will bleed quite badly from large cuts. I am not sure why you need to
prune it unless it's getting too big for the place you've planted it in.

Hoping Anton's around somewhere he will be able to give you more reliable
info.

Rod

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I've never heard of anyone pruning a walnut tree. Why does it need it?

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I've never heard of anyone pruning a walnut tree. Why does it need it?

They prune them in California, where they grow walnuts commercially.
--
Martin

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I subscribed to this newsgroup thinking I would be able to obtain sensible
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I've never heard of anyone pruning a walnut tree. Why does it need it?

I did it for a tree growing on the lawn that my wife wants to sit
under not in - i.e. I removed all low branches. They can outgrow
the space they are allotted or get out of shape just as much as
any other tree can.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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"Neil Robertson" wrote in message
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I have a walnut tree approx 13 years old that needs light pruning. Could
anybody tell me the best time and way of going about this task. I live in
East Anglia and the tree is a good bearer of nuts most years.

Diane Robertson

I subscribed to this newsgroup thinking I would be able to obtain sensible
answers to my gardening questions. How silly I was if what I see are the
only replies to date!

Oh dear. You were misinformed, then. We are not an advice bureau; we are
a group of people who chat about gardening. You are most welcome to join
in our chat :-)

But any answering of questions we do is entirely voluntary -sometimes
you will get answers, sometimes you will not, depending on who reads
your post, what knowledge they have, and whether they have the time or
inclination to pass on their knowledge.
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I've never heard of anyone pruning a walnut tree. Why does it need it?

They prune them in California, where they grow walnuts commercially.

Yes, but that's because the wetbacks are mostly small.

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I've never heard of anyone pruning a walnut tree. Why does it need it?

I did it for a tree growing on the lawn that my wife wants to sit
under not in - i.e. I removed all low branches. They can outgrow
the space they are allotted or get out of shape just as much as
any other tree can.

Well, yes. A walnut tree will grow larger than a oak - well, higher and
wider anyway.

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

I've never heard of anyone pruning a walnut tree. Why does it need it?

I did it for a tree growing on the lawn that my wife wants to sit
under not in - i.e. I removed all low branches. They can outgrow
the space they are allotted or get out of shape just as much as
any other tree can.

Well, yes. A walnut tree will grow larger than a oak - well, higher and
wider anyway.

Mine is about 40 feet high and 50 feet across!

But I have taken off a number of the lower branches so we can walk under it.

Alan
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

I've never heard of anyone pruning a walnut tree. Why does it need it?

I did it for a tree growing on the lawn that my wife wants to sit
under not in - i.e. I removed all low branches. They can outgrow
the space they are allotted or get out of shape just as much as
any other tree can.

Well, yes. A walnut tree will grow larger than a oak - well, higher and
wider anyway.

They are fairly slow growing though. And have aromatic leaves. And when
they fruit in autumn they seem to attract squirrels from miles away.

Amazingly the house I used to rent in Belgium had one planted about a
foot out from the house foundations. And at about 25 years old it had
just reached the roof apex level (~10m).

I always wondered what its roots were doing to the foundations.

Regards,
--
Martin Brown