I've never seen a single walnut for sale at a farmer's market here. Homeowners often see these trees offered in catalogues and plant them but I never hear of anyone harvesting them although I sometimes see them in people's yards. They seem to have insect problems that would require an individual spray regimen (some kind of fly-maggot) and if you don't have a very large field to make squirrels very nervous to cross, your odds of harvesting any are probably pretty small. I am intrigued by the suggestion here of digging small holes and filling them with partially composted leaves to encourage squirrels to leave some nuts where you can find them....I have a nephew who has wonderful crops of Carpathians in Idaho so I'm thinking they are better suited to the dry West.
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