Planting Walnuts

David G · Oct 12, 2017

What would be optimum depth, shucked or not?

Greg1959 · Oct 12, 2017

What happens in nature????

Patsdeere · Oct 12, 2017

What type of Walnut? Out here they graft English to black root stock, then plant when they are already out of the ground.

Mark-Ia · Oct 12, 2017

Just hire a squirrel. They seem to be very good at getting a good stand of trees.

Stephen Newell · Oct 12, 2017

Maybe you should google planting walnut trees from nuts. There is a bunch of steps and is pretty unreliable. Are you wanting the trees for nuts or lumber. It may be 30 years or more before you get any real benefit.

gab · Oct 12, 2017

can't be too hard, that pack of renegade gray squirrels in my yard have them planted every where. Only reason I had to mow lawn in the last two month drought was to cut weeds and walnut trees.

Brown Swiss · Oct 12, 2017

Ask the squirrels, they seem to do a great job around here! LOL

MF#1 · Oct 12, 2017

Google Hammons Walnuts. They have some info on their website. They are paying $15 per hundred shelled this year.

donjr · Oct 12, 2017

Back in ancient times when I was a young tad, my dad put english nuts in a big peanut butter jar with dirt and manure mixed for a media. The next spring, when they had sprouted, he dug a small hole with a shovel and broke the jar with a hammer as he planted them. Of course, the greenies would have a heart attack today......

old · Oct 12, 2017

If your talking black walnuts it is simple. Wait till after a nice rain. Drop the nut hull on or off on the ground. Step down hard on it a couple times and go on to the next one. Shoot here in Missouri it is common to have them come up just by falling off the tree. I sold 363 pounds of them at $15 per hundred but that is not going to cover the windshield damage they caused to my car. I have another 55 gal barrel full of them right now and it will be 2 or so weeks before they are all done falling

hrRoss · Oct 12, 2017

put some in loader bucket, have a person drop them in front of tractor tire

4520BW · Oct 13, 2017

I cheated and bought a 100 seedlings from the DNR for $33.

paul · Oct 13, 2017

Like squirrels, you need to plant hundreds to get dozens of saplings. They are a hit and miss type of thing. Even 'perfect' planting depth is a difficult thing to answer, depends on how the bit was handled from fall to spring.

Then you still Ave to get the tree from a little sapling to a real tree, and that too is 50-50 odds. And they don't transplant well, with their deep tap roots.

They are kinda fussy little buggers.

I've got 12-15 growing around the yard, wife just loves mowing lawn in falll..... not.

once you get a few to grow and produce, the squirrels help you out in creating more trees.

Paul

NoNewParts · Oct 13, 2017

lots of good advice.
But, if they are anything like my black walnut trees......
Look intently at a spot in your yard and say to yourself that you absolutely don't want any walnut trees there.......then do nothing at all. They will grow there...lol
(upwind, uphill, far, far away from the mature trees.....Why did that dang squirrel put it...there?!?)

Mike M · Oct 13, 2017

I'd think You would have to worry about the squirrels digging them up and eating them ?

paul · Oct 13, 2017

Yup! You need a screen over the top, or some such.

Dad put a bucket of walnuts in the shop one year, planned to crack then open from time to time as he was out there. Came back a week later, the shop isn't critter proof, and the squirrels had carried every nut but one away. Dad cracked that one open, and it was a bad one.

Paul

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