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  • From: "Richard O'Barr" <aatopgunaa@mindspring.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] squirrels cleaning walnuts?
  • Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 11:26:39 -0500

I've heard that putting the walnuts in the driveway and running over them
with the auto works to facilitate husk removal.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Whitehead" <voltaire@islandnet.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] squirrels cleaning walnuts?


> This isn't quite a fruit question, but I'm hoping some of you also grow
nuts.
>
> It's that season of year when I am finding recently-buried nuts in my
> piles of leafmould and compost. I have lots of filbert trees, so I
> expect to find them, but I am also finding walnuts. I have seen a
> squirrel hurrying along branches with the green husk of a walnut in
> its mouth. The walnuts I am digging up, though, are missing the
> green husk. They are not commercial walnuts that someone has put out
> to feed the squirrels, because they are fresh nuts, pale in colour
> and tasting completely different from older ones. So what is going
> on? Do the squirrels remove the husks before they bury the walnuts?
> If so, I know the new owner of a house with a walnut tree who is
> exasperated with how long it takes her to remove the husks. Maybe we
> can enlist some squirrels as helpers. After all, fishermen in Asia
> have been using cormorants to catch fish, so surely we could train a
> few squirrels.
>
>
> --
> Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> maritime zone 8
> cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
> sandy soil
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