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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Planting Butternuts and Black Walnuts
  • Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:42:59 -0600

A fellow I once knew planted several acres of nut seeds and the squirrels found and dug up nearly all. He thwarted the squirrels for his second planting. He obtained a quantity of tin cans (Campbells soup cans, etc) that had one end cut off. At the closed end of each can, he cut an "X" and peeled the flaps out. One of these cans was placed over the top of each nut at planting. Seedlings grew through the end of the can and, by the time the diameter expanded to fit the can, much of it had rusted away so the young trees were not girdled.

Jim Fruth
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Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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