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margaret-and-dave

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Sep 05, 2009 11:00 am

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I have a walnut tree with lots of nuts on it. I have tried to find out when they should be picked etc but the information I have found doesn't seem to fit in with my tree.I read that the green nuts crack open whilst still on the tree. On my tree, the nuts either have changed or are changing from green to black. They then fall off. I have tried collecting the black nuts and peeling off the black coating but there are maggots in the black stuff. Yuk! When I picked the green nuts, they didn't seem to be ripe.

I don't want to waste the nuts so any advice would be appreciated.

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peter-pat

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Sep 05, 2009 11:12 am

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Hi,
We collect the green ones as soon as they fall, peel them, scum the shell and leave to dry in the sun before storing. But I don't think they are ready yet, we have collected some of ours and they are not good inside.

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margaret-and-dave

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Sep 05, 2009 12:03 pm

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Thanks Pat. Our walnuts tend to go black on the tree before they fall, in fact, most of them are black now. Do you think we should pick them before they go black?

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jay

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Sep 05, 2009 3:07 pm

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It might be different where you are but here in CP its usually grapes first (September) then walnuts (October) then olives (Oct/Nov)...people here usually knock the walnuts off with long sticks so I usually wait for the tap, tap, tap sound to know the right time!

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raesharp

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Sep 07, 2009 10:26 am

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Hi Margaret and Dave,

Not been a good year up here for walnuts, all of ours black and rotten this year, possibly due to the very harsh winter? Think perhaps they just couldn't cope with the change, as my in laws in Wales have a walnut tree heaving with fruit and I know its colder there!!

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