Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

This is definitely a black walnut. We had lots of them on our farm in SW Missouri. Our neighbors in the city in KS also have them, squirrels love to bury them in my garden and flower beds. The walnuts fall off the tree when it gets cool in the fall. They will definitely stain your hands so wear gloves if you handle them. As kids on the farm we would pick them up by the bucket full and put them on a driveway where we could drive over them several times with the pick up until the hulls came off and dried up. Pick a place where you don't want to plant anything because they are poison to plants,. We then gathered the nuts to store for eating or took them to market to sell. After the outside hull is off inside is a very hard shell with a delicious nut inside  that has to be cracked with a hammer (or between two flat rocks as we did as kids).  You do need to leave them on the tree to mature and fall off.
 

--- On Tue, 8/23/11, Martina <martina.hemming@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Martina <martina.hemming@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] Chestnut?
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 8:22 PM

 

Thanks everyone. I tried to open it up and it had a greenish yellow pulp
with some type of nut in the middle. The pulp quickly turned black after a
coupe of minutes and it dyed my hands dark brown so I threw it into the
woods before it dyed my hands any further :) I scrubbed and used alcohol
and I still have some stains after a couple of days! I couldn't quite
identify the smell, but thought it reminded me of antique stores. After
reading the replies, it was probably a walnut smell.

Luckily, it is growing outside of our pasture near a creek, so it won't be a
mowing hazard. The previous owners here planted bamboo back there so it
will be interesting to see if the bamboo can survive near there... I read
that nothing can grow near walnut trees, but the bamboo is tenacious. Jeff,
I'll post a photo of the entire tree so that might help to determine if it
is a walnut, or an elm or a sycamore like you think it might be. Looking at
photos of walnut trees and fruit on the internet, I'm leaning toward walnut.

Martina

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Gail Dobber <g.dobber@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> Hi Martina,
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> That is a walnut. Not sure if it is a black walnut. The buried nuts and
> empty shells can be a walking and mowing hazard in your yard if the tree is
> near and if you have squirrels.
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> Gail Dobber
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> Gail Dobber
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> Cottonwood, CA
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> g.dobber@sbcglobal.net
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> From: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Martina
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 7:39 PM
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> To: organic_gardening@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Chestnut?
>
> I found this tree growing out by a creek. Can anyone identify this tree and
> fruit/nut? My best guess is some type of chestnut. If it is indeed a
> chestnut, what variety and is it edible? All the photos of chestnuts I see
> are very spiky and hairy, but this one is rather smooth and very hard. The
> tree is located in West Georgia. Thanks.
>
> http://www.westgeorgiaspca.org/chestnut.JPG
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> --
> Martina
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