Nut Harvesting

[patricimo54]

Pecans are the most common nut, wild or domestic in my area. I always put back 10 to 20 pounds of shelled nuts in the freezer each season. I package them in snack size bags and then place those in quart freezer bags. This allows me to have nuts for anything from stir fry to breads.

I am looking to plant some nut trees on the Ozark property and because of my age I have been looking for a fast producers. One nut tree that has caught my eye, but I know very little about is the Butternut.

For those of you that have butternut trees in your area please share your opinion of the nut.

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Wish I could help. All we have here is walnut and hickory nut

[mike692]

We have some butternut here, Pat. They are few and far between though. About the only thing I know about them are they are a great host tree for morels.

We also have several species of acorns, hickory, hazelnut, chestnut, black walnuts, and even some domestic english walnuts.

About the only of those I have experience with are the hazelnuts and hickory nuts. I've always wanted to leech out some acorns, but have never had the time.

[patricimo54]

Oct 13, 2013 12:57:05 GMT -5 mike692 said:

We have some butternut here, Pat. They are few and far between though. About the only thing I know about them are they are a great host tree for morels.

That in itself is good news. The fellow I bought the property from told me that morels were common in the area. I have hopes of going up this November and if so I have hopes of putting nut trees in the ground, but I have to see how things unfold. Thanks you all for your response.

[loggerlloyd]

Patricimo54, the butternut is a cousin to the walnut tree. the nuts are good for candies and baking. the wood is softer than the walnut and easy to work with. takes about 20 years to start producing. hope this helps. Logger