An article on hazelnuts is in the current Northern Nut Growers Nutshell.
i saw mention of the Rutgers varieties in this thread along with mention of some soon-to-be-released new cultivars. Any suggestions of nurseries?
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There are several places you can order from. Foggy Bottom trees, burnt ridge, zās nutty ridge also has them.
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I prefer unripe hazelnuts also. Anyone who never beats the squirrels to their crop, I will pay you for a pound harvested in the green to see if thatās the ripeness I like. I am stuck down in once 7B now 8A growing hazelnuts gangbusters but fear it will never be cool enough to get nuts, and dream of our 4 years in England living in houses set in a former apple orchard with one row of half a dozen 20ā high hazelnuts. I picked them a bit prior to the squirrels, shelled them while watching TV, stored them in the freezer, and enjoyed them as much as I do macadamia nuts, more than walnuts and maybe more than good pecans. Asked a commercial filbert grower WA state to send me some green, they sent fresh (that yearās harvest) but still dry/ dusty to my palate.
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This guy has some pretty nice Jefferson and Polly for $6, but you have to buy 10.
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I grow multi-stemmed bushes on purpose. Iāve had enormous troubles with rabbits stripping the bark of hazelnuts in the winter, but the local deer prefer other plants. For instance, they like to eat tomatoes that are just starting to turn pink. And apples. They like apple twigs, and prefer the twigs of eating apples to the twigs of crab apples. And a couple of my neighborās ornaments shrubs have been eaten to the ground. But they havenāt yet eaten my hazelnuts.
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here as well. even the voles leave them alone.
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Any idea on the improvements of those trees over the released ones?
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They are all top notch, but the newer releases look slightly larger, above the culinary standard size. Most Euros dont differ much in flavor as in they are all good, except for mild sweetness and some oil based aomatics. The ones I had were all slightly blanched, not roasted nor raw. The most pronounced variations in flavors are present in the hybrid groups where seedling could differ in characteristics.
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Arenāt you growing some seedlings of named varieties? Any fruited?
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Yes. Farris, Wisconsin, alex, slate.
30% with few slate.
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Most of mine are seedlings of named varieties. Iām curious what type of quality reduction the seedlings experience from the originals on yours.
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The ones I get from Canada are from open pollinstion by diverse improved varieties, from pure euro, through tested hybrids. I assume some dont exhibit better qualities than the parent and a few are improvements. Shell thickness, size, % nut fill, nutsize, ease and efficiency of harvest, yield, precocity, etc.
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Iām thinking about using any substandard ones to press for cooking oil. Iāve been dying to try it with my walnuts also. Who knows if itās any good or not, but Iāll find out.
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When I get a ton of the mixed pollinators Iāll probably shell them and fatten some hogs
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Wont the hogs gobble em up shell and all?
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In the natural setting yes, not sure if they eat shell, but my hogs will be pampered anyhow. Hehehe.
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I want a 1/2 inch layer of hazelnut fat
and marbling throughout the pork so I can bury the pig in a pile of salt for a while, smoke it like the Spanish.
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jamon iberico. do you grow quince? youll need some mebrillo and manchego to go with it.
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