To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [NAFEX} The Big Freeze, and hazels
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:21:49 -0500
Well, if some of you had no other reason to be interested in hazels... I've
found small nutlets on our wild plants. Some of these plants cropped in
years past before pines and poplars overwhelmed them, the nuts were small,
thick shelled, and rather dry and tasteless. Cecil's book talks about the
oil content and flavor of hazels, and I'm very fond of hazelnuts, so I know
what he's talking about. We've cut the trees that were choking the wild
hazels, I figure I can study and experiment on them while I wait for my
little Badgersett plants to grow. I can also, (if I feel like doing lots of
work) bud the best Badgersetts onto the wild plants.
That brings up the total of trees/shrubs I know that set or held their fruit
in spite of the freeze:
Juneberries
Aronia
Thomas Myers black walnut
native plums
blackberries (most of them)
some tame blackberries
black raspberries
native persimmons
late blooms on strawberries
late leafing hickory specimans (pignuts and mockernuts, some leafed early,
some late)