Tim Lamb  writes
>Outside our cultivated garden, I have not succeeded in growing Walnut. Each 
>year, the squirrels produce seedlings which I dutifully pot up. Planting in 
>bits of derelict ground does not seem to work. Tree guards do not suit the 
>large leaves and serve to protect snails. Browsing by Deer and Rabbits and 
>competition from weeds does for the rest. This year I am going to make tree 
>guards from wire netting and use much larger pieces of plastic mulch. 
>Probably get vandalised:-(


Apparently our village was famed for its walnuts in the C18.
There are quite a few obviously wild walnuts about (in hedrows for
example).

I've never managed a single walnut to eat from any of them.

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Oz
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