Walnut Trees ?

heehaw · Oct 17, 2003

you might check with you state forestry commission, our state forestry sells black walnut trees every year..not sure how old they are, but they are usually 12-24 inches tall, and seem to do real well...if you can keep the deer from biting the tops off. i haven't bought any in years but i think the cost runs about $30 for 50 trees?? if you want timber, you plant them closer together than you do, if you want walnuts. not sure why anyone would want walnuts?? i haven't been able to give them away.
heehaw

NIXON · Oct 17, 2003

Thanks , I'll give your suggestion a try . John

Hoosier_Daddy · Oct 23, 2003

One thing about walnut trees. Don't plant tomato plants too close to a walnut tree. You will get very few tomato's. Something about Walnut trees and tomato plants. At least Black Walnut trees.

Tom

Egon · Oct 24, 2003

Somewhere I have read that mature Walmut trees have about a 50 foot radius where growing much of anything gets difficult.

Egon

Von · Oct 24, 2003

About twenty years ago my brother got this idea to plant black walnut trees for lumber on about 8 acres we had. so we planted about 500 trees that we got that were about 2 ft. tall over a few years. Today there is not one standing /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif the deer or rabbits would bite them off and just leave it sitting there. We tried putting fences around each tree and shooting all the deer and rabbits we could, but no luck. Plus as stated they don't like the sun and need lots of water. I gave my father-inlaw two of the trees and he planted and babyed them in his yard. When he sold his house 15 years ago they were about 20ft. tall. I gave up on the idea after about four years when we had less than 10% left. It can be done, but its not easy!

r0GuE · Oct 24, 2003

( Somewhere I have read that mature Walmut trees have about a 50 foot radius where growing much of anything gets difficult.

Egon )

ABSOLUTELY TRUE!!!

It is amazing. The trunk of mine is 5 foor wide and stands ~ 150 foot tall? (not good judging hieght). The branches arch over and when the nuts are on and heavy, the tips almost touch the ground 60 - 70 foot away from the tree! Quite an unbrella of moisture and sun absorbing walnut tree. Not to mention the paste of leaves and walnut comets. Then there are the roots (sitting on top of the yeard at some spots 4 to 6 inches around). And last, the big rotten branches (where do these keep coming from??????)

Anyway.... tough to grow under them,... I'm going to eventually try ferns.

Junkman · Oct 24, 2003

( you might check with you state forestry commission, our state forestry sells black walnut trees every year..not sure how old they are, but they are usually 12-24 inches tall, and seem to do real well...if you can keep the deer from biting the tops off. i haven't bought any in years but i think the cost runs about $30 for 50 trees?? if you want timber, you plant them closer together than you do, if you want walnuts. not sure why anyone would want walnuts?? i haven't been able to give them away.
heehaw )

I intend to check into the state program if there is one here in CT....... as for being able to give them away.... if they are the same type of walnuts that my wife cooks with, she goes through mega bags of them for brownies and cookies for Christmas presents. The only thing is that I don't think that I have enough years left on this earth to see them get to the point that they would be sprouting nuts to be picked.....

heehaw · Oct 26, 2003

lots of folks say they want them..but what they seem to mean is they want them picked out, and delivered!! we spend a lot of time every year, picking them up and throwing/hauling them into the woods behind the house.
heehaw