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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Black Walnuts
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:42:18 -0400



Gene GeRue wrote:
Those trees are now about 25
years old and most of them are ten to twelve inches in diameter. For the best furniture wood I prefer a slow-growing tree with tight grain. These are candidates but I will refrain from cutting them as long as possible.

That is great news, Gene. I was worried that it would be DS's wood instead of DH's. The tree I am pulling from is a foot in diameter near the base. It was planted about 20 years ago.


If I were planting black walnuts I would plant them near a stream or at least in a low area likely to have greater soil moisture. Most of the trees at Heartwood are within a hundred feet of the stream or at an elevation that means their tap roots are down into the side seepage from the stream. Many trees are at the stream bank. The twelve above are an exception and there are many other young ones planted the same way. None are more than about thirty feet in elevation above the stream level.

My tree is about 250 feet from the dry creek, but not more than 5 feet in elevation. It makes sense to plant them near the creekline. It is a dry creek, but the water is underground.


The nut crop this year is very good.

In the almost an hour that I was out there, I have picked up over two hundred pounds of walnuts. How many pounds of meat will that yield? I only got the bottom branches-those that I could reach and shake, so I only 'cleaned' about a quarter of the tree at best.


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