[NAFEX] dwarf almonds

Michael Nave jmichaelnave at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 6 21:58:27 EDT 2007


Where did you get your hardy dwarf almonds?


--- mIEKAL aND <dtv at mwt.net> wrote:

> These little trees have made it thru days of 35
> below... I'm in zone  
> 4.  There's species that hardy that are sweet?
> 
> I'd be tickled to get a few edible a'monds.
> 
> ~mIEKAL
> 
> 
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Stephen Sadler wrote:
> 
> > Yes, there are nuts in there.  Whether they're
> bitter depends on your
> > variety.  They start out soft and green (and there
> are recipes that  
> > use
> > green almonds), but as they mature the skin will
> dry and pull more  
> > easily
> > away from the pit, which should be dry and woody. 
> Inside that is the
> > almond.  When ripe, they can be shaken off the
> tree.
> >
> > There's a question of pronunciation, whether the L
> is silent (and  
> > the A
> > pronounce as in "as").  Local growers say that
> when they're on the  
> > tree,
> > it's almond; after harvest, it's amond, because
> you shake the L out of
> > them...
> >
> > ~ Stephen
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nafex-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> > [mailto:nafex-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of mIEKAL aND
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:04 AM
> > To: North American Fruit Explorers
> > Subject: [NAFEX] dwarf almonds
> >
> > I notice a couple of the hardy dwarf almonds I
> planted many years ago
> > are setting nuts for the first time.  Is there an
> actual nut in these
> > & I'm assuming that if there is, it'll be bitter? 
> The trees are only
> > 3 feet high.
> >
> > ~mIEKAL
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