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  • From: "Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] squirrels cleaning walnuts?
  • Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:33:49 -0400

Not on Carpathian walnuts, I believe that is what they are talking about.
The squirrels have stripped maybe 200 pounds or more of all my Carpathians. They don't touch the Blacks.



Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.





----Original Message Follows----
From: "Richard O'Barr" <aatopgunaa@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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 leaf mould 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 color
> 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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