AGN76
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- Location
- north Wales
Talking of bushes, this came up on my youtube recommendations and made me giggle!
Vegan bought a farm in Scottish Highlands to grow a NUT tree forest
- Thread starter curlietailz
- Start date
Never seen so many as this year
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
It will have 500 people willing to work for nothing to live the dream. Thus meaning it will be succeed inside its own bubble and a few more will crop up until reality hits and things go a full circle.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
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Same here loads of nuts in the hazels. Bloody squirrels are doing well
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Hazels are rare around here and decent walking sticks even rarer. Hazel will sometimes grow around the lochs or up sheltered glens, but they are not common. Never found one with nuts but I suppose they may exist.
- Location
- sw scotland
Loads of nuts here. The stick makers sometimes come to cut some. These are all within 200 yards of our house. All free food and drink but with food banks nobody goes out picking any more - except me.
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- Location
- Sedgefield
Exactly.... nature’s bounty at this time of year
Hedgerow crab apples, damsons, blackberries, sloes, the odd apple tree,
No one forages anymore because they don’t have a clue what to do with it
We picked about 2 stone of damsons yesterday off a “wild” tree in the hedge and Mother’s been making jam, stewing and freezing all day today
Everyone should be made to plant a few fruit trees in their garden and grow their own fruit and have a veg Plot
Even tubs on the patio of widow boxes could grow food..... bloody food banks make people idle and lazy pah !!
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
Altogether now: "I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear... "
I've been humming that all morning ... The bullocks think I'm barking, I'm sure ?
Roy_H
Member
In the supermarket with my 4 year old son. As we passed the sweetcorn he suddenly burst into song "It's amazing, how we get the maize in! " (Tractor Ted )
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
... and, that restricted diet just makes them so much keener to go out foraging
Not bad for a Saturday morning with two young lads in tow. Can't beat free food!
- Location
- East Yorkshire
What’s in the boat then?... and, that restricted diet just makes them so much keener to go out foraging
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Not bad for a Saturday morning with two young lads in tow. Can't beat free food!
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Jamming and stewing damsons is a shameful waste. Damson whiskey is where its at. I don't drink, neither does my wife but we make about 2 gallons of damson whiskey every year for next years Christmas presents. We usually get the bottles back just after New Year with requests for 'same again next year please'.
We have to import the damsons from a Sassenach contact in The Lakes but I guess that will end when the hard border between a free (but under European rule) Scotland abuts a free England. I wonder what the penalty will be for damson trafficking?
We have to import the damsons from a Sassenach contact in The Lakes but I guess that will end when the hard border between a free (but under European rule) Scotland abuts a free England. I wonder what the penalty will be for damson trafficking?
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Paua - NZ name for Abalone.
I put the meat through a mincer, bit of sweet chilli sauce and make them into patties, and freeze them for later
I only need a ten-mile round trip for a feed of paua, and think I was in the water for abit over an hour to get these.
Good way to burn off the eggs & nice fillet steak we had for breakfast - it's just 3 boys at home this weekend
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Never mind the damson trafficking, just watch out for the excise men now you've posted this!
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
Old McDonald
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- Location
- Harray, Orkney
It is 20 years or more since I last saw them but there used to be a good stretch of wild hazel along the south shore of Loch Ness, meaning it probably never got any sun on the odd day it makes an appearance, and open to the North. They were very productive and I had a few, but the red squirrel population was thriving.
Last winter, after much research, I planted a few hundred trees of cultivated varieties. For those of you who planted trees long ago and have not had any nuts, do you know what you planted? Cultivated varieties are notoriously difficult to pollinate. Male and female flowers appear at different times on the same variety and varieties are often incompatible with others. At least three different varieties are required to have any hope of a crop. I planted four. Unfortunately having been unable to deal with them for most of the summer, and not even allowed to go and see them at present, I have a horrible feeling they will all have succumbed to lack of water and died.
Last winter, after much research, I planted a few hundred trees of cultivated varieties. For those of you who planted trees long ago and have not had any nuts, do you know what you planted? Cultivated varieties are notoriously difficult to pollinate. Male and female flowers appear at different times on the same variety and varieties are often incompatible with others. At least three different varieties are required to have any hope of a crop. I planted four. Unfortunately having been unable to deal with them for most of the summer, and not even allowed to go and see them at present, I have a horrible feeling they will all have succumbed to lack of water and died.
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
... and, that restricted diet just makes them so much keener to go out foraging
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Not bad for a Saturday morning with two young lads in tow. Can't beat free food!
Hoping to get a drop off' of heather honey tomorrow
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- harvesting maize varieties yielding