Posted by John S-B on October 03, 2011 at 19:30:20 from (64.12.116.74):
Anybody harvest black walnuts? This year is the first year I've tried it. TONS of them here in Central Oh. I picked up a 30gal. trash can at work. (had to pick them up to mow out front, it's great being paid to do it!!) That was from one side of one tree, the other half is on the property next door. And only half of the nuts have fallen. Picked up a couple of buckets in front of the house and from a couple of small trees on my property as well. I could easily fill a dump truck with all the nuts that have fallen from trees by the roads around here that nobody bothers with, they just let them lay there. I've been worried about one hitting the windshield driving down the road there's so many walnut trees around here! I put them in a small cement mixer with 3-5" stones to knock off the husks, then hosed them off in an old 2 gal. plastic tree pot (the kind you get them in at the nursery). Then rinsed in a bucket of water and the floaters got pitched. I let the water run out in the gravel where I park equipment, it's supposed to be a natural herbacide, so we'll see how that works. Got enough out of that batch to cover a 3x4 screen I have mounted on a frame. I'll let them set for a few weeks then work on cracking the hulls and getting the nut meats out. It took about four hours to process the first lot, I may do a second round. I hope to get 2-3 quarts out of each batch. I know, it's a lot of work.
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