I have been mowing these yucky fruit things for about a month -thinking to myself the whole time, why in the world would anyone ever plant such a terrible tree that drops inedible fruit that looks like a lemon and almost smells like one and makes such a mess!
Well we had some church friends over for dinner last week and they noticed the fruits on the ground and told me they were walnuts.
What a surprise. I never knew that walnuts had another casing besides their nutshells.
My oh My -we have a ton of walnuts in our yard.
My son has decided that he wants to make some money so he has gathered most of them to wait for the casings to dry out and then he's going to market them. What an undertaking. I've decided to let him just go for it. We'll see what happens.
3 comments:
i planted a walnut tree last year. it will be a while before it will have walnuts, by then you'll be an expert and can tell me what to do with them.
Don't leave the hulls to dry on the nuts. Put them in the driveway or some other place where they will be run over regularly and that will help to shuck the outside hulls off of them. When an appropriate time is passed, you can pick up the nuts, let them dry throughly and then crack and pick out the walnuts or sell them for a nice amount of money. I used to do this a a youngster and made spending money this way.
Love reading your blog.
Dan Ward Gardendale
Dan, thanks for the tip. We will have to do that.
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