Wild hazelnuts best crop ever

fishhead · #1 09/18/13, 02:09 PM

This year has to be the best hazelnut crop that I've ever seen. A person could pick bushels.

farmerDale · #2 09/18/13, 03:00 PM

Interesting. Here we had the worst I ever saw. I have no idea why, but there were so few that picking a gallon would have been impossible. Glad for you, but slightly jealous...

tinknal · #3 09/18/13, 05:19 PM

We don't have any around here, where do you find them?

jwal10 · #4 09/18/13, 06:28 PM

There are a lot here too. I have picked 6-5 gallon buckets so far. They grow everywhere around here. Fence rows, along roads and in empty lots. Birds and squirrels carry them around. I had 1 start right up against the sidewalk and foundation of the house in a rose bush, it was 3' tall before I saw it while I was trimming the roses.

The man across from my DSs rental, grew filberts in his yard. We removed 2 of them that grew up in the park strip when we went to build the cabin. People came by and said it was sad, that they came from "Gilberts filberts"....James

fishhead · #5 09/18/13, 06:57 PM

I see the most concentrated stands in clear cuts that are just starting to regrow but I'm also seeing them next to logging trails.

Normally I see few mature nuts and nearly all of insect holes but not this year. This year they are just thick.

#6 09/18/13, 07:04 PM

Interested in selling any?

fishhead · #7 09/18/13, 07:52 PM

I'm not picking any otherwise I would. It seems like it would be a lot of tedious work to get the nut out of the hull and husk.

Just out of curiosity what would unshelled nuts sell for?

fishhead · #8 09/18/13, 07:58 PM

Here's a good resource for hazel nuts. It might make a good homestead crop.

http://www.agmrc.org/commodities__pr...uts/hazelnuts/

1shotwade · #9 09/18/13, 08:53 PM

I feel cheated! Here the nuts are not ready.We put out 100 bushes a few years ago and they are just starting to bear nuts.Don't know how many to expect but it looks like we'll have to wait for a killing frost which usually comes about oct.20.

jwal10 · #10 09/18/13, 09:10 PM

The hulls fall right off when dry, easy to crack, no picking the nuts out of shell....James

#11 09/18/13, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by fishhead

I'm not picking any otherwise I would. It seems like it would be a lot of tedious work to get the nut out of the hull and husk.

Just out of curiosity what would unshelled nuts sell for?

I ment no processing of the nuts..