![]() Neighbours spruce are almost all dead now.Īs others noted you plant trees for the next generation and the joy of watching them grow while you are around. Walnuts do a good job of thinning out other trees with the poison they leave in the ground. I would think just lightly burying them on your property would get you some trees and for good timber you should plant thick enough or have other trees to make them grow tall and straight. I do not think the squirrels are carrying them that far but they are growing on their own somehow. So we have had walnuts sprouting up all over our ground from those tress. Walnuts mixed with spruce to encourage them to grow tall and straight. Neighbour had Ministry of Natural Resources plant an old pasture around 40 years ago. My neighbor suffers with walnut/red squirrels. Walnut trees here wont grow very fast.įor sure wouldnt want one anywhere near my house, all they do is attract squirrels and they seem to chew their way into the attic. Hope you are a young man, or have family that WILL keep the land. trees planted this way have no roots pruned at a nursery and no replanting stress. and just recently have released the many crop trees that have really nice form ( approx. Planted open areas near woodlands to walnut seed 25 years ago. they are easy to thin out if you get to many. not all will grow so plant them thicker than you need. Just dig a slot with a spade and throw one or two in and stomp shut. ![]() If there isn't any meat in there you've got a sterile tree. Take a hammer and smash some of them open before you go around planting them. There's NO WAY my wife would go for that. Posted 21:22 (#7080674 - in reply to #7080372) Subject: RE: Walnuts need to be planted in the fall to sprout. Guess I may have to do some more investigating. I have never saw a tree come up from walnuts in the field. I hopefully got all the nut bearing trees cut last fall. You're planting them and I can't keep them cut out of our yards from the squirrels planting them everywhere. Posted 19:59 (#7080454 - in reply to #7080372) Subject: RE: Walnuts need to be planted in the fall to sprout. One of our Ohio nat resources guys said to transplant seedlings March/April. Got 2 myself that I want to transplant in the spring. That's what I did for peaches.Īs for walnuts, trees seem to pop up on a volunteer basis. If you want to be more hi-tech about it, get some seedlings reccomended by Purdue.for good bole quality. Best to just save time and let the squirrels do it for you. ![]() Or you can plant them and the squirrels will dig them up and replant them for you anyway. Gather them up and dump them in the vaginitis of where you want them planted. Posted 19:27 (#7080372 - in reply to #7080201) Subject: Walnuts need to be planted in the fall to sprout. Later, I got to wondering if we are all talking about the same kind of walnuts? I was thinking about black walnuts but in Arkansas you might be talking about English walnuts. ![]() ![]() Or read what Iowa State University says to do in this bulletin on the subject. Leave the squirrels alone and transplant the ones that grow next year. I think the walnuts have to sit out over winter to sprout. Squirrels do a pretty good job of planting walnuts. He then got small trees about one foot tall an set them out. There was a guy near here that planted walnut nuts, next thing he found out the squirrels dug them all up. Is it time to plant them now? Do I leave the hull on the nut? Any certain way to place the nut when I plant it?Īny more help will be greatly appreciated. How do I go about planting the wanuts so they will spout and become trees? Wanuts have fell from the trees and I would like to plant them on some other acreage we have. I have a few walnut trees on one of my farms. Planting walnuts Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 ![]()
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