{"id":19008,"date":"2021-10-29T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19008"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:34:15","slug":"episode-465-black-walnuts-what-can-we-do-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=19008","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 465 BLACK WALNUTS…WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THEM?"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 465    BLACK WALNUTS\u2026WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THEM?<\/p>\n

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Every year someone gets conked with a falling black walnut.  Like getting hit with a world series hardball.<\/div>\n
This year it was Marjorie\u2019s turn.  She got wopped on the bare upper arm as she diligently tried to gather<\/div>\n
the walnuts before the cursed red squirrels got hem hidden away in the barns.  <\/div>\n

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Now we differ on black walnuts.  I like them and have planted a number of trees on our farm.  Marjorie does <\/div>\n
not like them at all.   A subject of some tension each year as the walnuts fall.   they are edible but getting to<\/div>\n
the walnut meat requires a sledge hammer and careful hand picking the walnut meat from the tooth breaking<\/div>\n
shards.   Red squirrel teeth are better at this than human teeth.  A walnut shard is capable of breaking the<\/div>\n
best of human teeth.  So walnuts are just wasted.   We race to get as many as we can before<\/div>\n
the red squirrels.  Then what should we do with the baskets of nuts?   There was a time when I <\/div>\n
pitch walnuts along the Ontario side roads like Johny Appleseed did.   Now I take credit for a lot of walnut<\/div>\n
trees in full growth with their progeny \u2018whopping\u2019 a few cars no doubt.<\/div>\n

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what to do with this year\u2019s crop?   \u201cLet\u2019s put them in Andrew Skeoch\u2019s fire it.\u201d  \u201cNot far enough away, the red<\/div>\n
squirrels will find them and bring them back.\u201d   \u201cWhat should we do with the red squirrels.?\u201d \u201cCall Jackson Skeoch, he<\/div>\n
may have an answer.\u201d<\/div>\n

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In short black walnut season is a troubled time.<\/div>\n

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Yes, black walnuts float.  Ghastly site each year on our small pond nearest the house.<\/div>\n

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Black walnuts are killers.  Their root system is toxic to other trees.  I made the mistake of planting a hickory tree<\/div>\n
within 20 feet of a walnut tree.  For three decades the two have been sparring beneath the ground.  This year<\/div>\n
the hickory died and the black walnut celebrated by filling the pond with nuts.   I hope the floating nuts do not<\/div>\n
hurt our snapping turtle as he or she sleeps for the winter at the bottom of the pond.<\/div>\n

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Marjorie is smiling.  A forced smile as she made me look at her bruised arm.<\/div>\n

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Math problem for you\u2026what speed can a falling walnut reach before it hits the ground\u2026or before it got Marjoie?<\/div>\n

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Here is one cache of the red squirrel\u2026we got them <\/div>\n

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EPISODE 465    BLACK WALNUTS\u2026WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THEM? alan skeoch oct. 2021 Every year someone gets conked with a falling black walnut.  Like getting hit with a world series hardball. This year it was Marjorie\u2019s turn.  She got wopped on the bare upper arm as she diligently tried to gather the walnuts before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}