Tim Lamb  writes
>In article , Oz

>>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.
>
>Hmm. First you need the right weather conditions at flowering. Next you
>need a relatively frost free late spring and a normal rainfall. Then you
>need to avoid the Rooks who rob them off the tree, perhaps hoping they
>are eggs.

Oh, tons and tons of fruit, all eaten by rooks before they fall.

>Three seedlings re-located from the garden to the pony paddock carried
>fruit this year so probably 12-15 years. I don't suppose I'll harvest
>anything from the next planting!

Bah! You are a spring chicken...

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Oz
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