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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Black Walnuts
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:54:33 EDT



> >The forester replied
> that he had wondered when the trees would be requested; they had been
> planted by a previous forester a couple hundred years earlier.
>

A long term investment for the cottager wsa to cut oak trees into pollards
and then when the young limbs came out, braces them so they made a certain
type
of curve to be sold in 100 years as ships ribs.

If you plant black walnut trees as a loooong term investment for the next
generation, plant an ash tree alternating witht he black walnut trees. The
ash
is not much affected by juglones and it will grow a little faster and a
little
bushier than the walnut forcing the walnut to have a tall straght trunk with
the first branches very high. In other words, you are making premo veneer
log. When both trees are 25-30 years old, you cut all the ash and let the
walnuts enclose the canopy.

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"Grandaddy's apples on the mountain side,
Gone, gonna rise again.
He planted the trees just before he died
Gone, gonna rise again.
I guess he knew he'd never see
Red fruit hanging from the tree
But he planted them for his children and me
Gone, gonna rise again."

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