[NAFEX] [NAFEX} The Big Freeze, and hazels

Donna &/or Kieran holycow at cookeville.com
Wed Jun 27 23:21:49 EDT 2007


Well, if some of you had no other reason to be interested in hazels... I've 
found small nutlets on our wild plants.  Some of these plants cropped in 
years past before pines and poplars overwhelmed them, the nuts were small, 
thick shelled, and rather dry and tasteless.  Cecil's book talks about the 
oil content and flavor of hazels, and I'm very fond of hazelnuts, so I know 
what he's talking about.  We've cut the trees that were choking the wild 
hazels, I figure I can study and experiment on them while I wait for my 
little Badgersett plants to grow.  I can also, (if I feel like doing lots of 
work) bud the best Badgersetts onto the wild plants.
That brings up the total of trees/shrubs I know that set or held their fruit 
in spite of the freeze:
Juneberries
Aronia
Thomas Myers black walnut
native plums
blackberries (most of them)
some tame blackberries
black raspberries
native persimmons
late blooms on strawberries
late leafing hickory specimans (pignuts and mockernuts, some leafed early, 
some late)




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