If ya want black walnuts you have to work for it.
That is the truth. Reckon that is why they cost so much.
That load would also kill the fish in a small pond.
My grandma used a corn sheller to get the husks off after they'd dried and turned brown.
My grandma used a corn sheller to get the husks off after they'd dried and turned brown.
?ÿI had these soaking for abut 2 weeks so the hulls were mostly mush and as far killing fish is concerned I had always heard that it required fresh "green" hulls. Does it work with mushy walnut hulls? I suppose it would but I don't know.
At any rate what started as full wheel barrel has been reduced to about two 5 gallon buckets and I have them soaking to get the remaining mush off. I will wash them for a couple of weeks and then get to cracking. I may get 1-12 gallons of nuts if I'm lucky.
Will take a long time.?ÿ
As a rotten kid, I figured out that walnut hulls and ashes from the wood stove (mainly oak) make a pretty shade of pink when mixed with water.?ÿ It reminded me of the litmus test where acids turn the paper pink and alkalines make it blue.?ÿ Very handy knowledge when you like to intrigue and gross out your kid sister simultaneously.?ÿ
We used to pile the green walnuts in a gravel driveway. ?ÿAfter drying sufficiently, we would drive over them numerous times to make them easy to sort out. ?ÿThick rubber gloves are recommended.
How do you keep the nut from getting moldy inside? I haven't had much luck with the few nuts I collected this year. No experience with these.
How do you keep the nut from getting moldy inside? I haven't had much luck with the few nuts I collected this year. No experience with these.
No fear of that for a quite a while. A black walnut is a tough little sucker.
My grandma used a corn sheller to get the husks off after they'd dried and turned brown.
My grandpa did the same thing. As kids, he'd let us crank the wheel. Worked pretty well.
That wheel barrel load of walnuts in their hulls has now been reduced to this one box.
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