When our hazel bushes bloomed in the spring, I thought it would be a great harvest, the first true after four years of waiting. I ordered through a hand-cranked nutcracker to be prepared for the huge nötmängderna I saw before me. After an unusually cold and dry April and an even more unusually cold May […]
In early August, I participated in the Nordic permakulturfestivalen in Finland and took the opportunity to visit the arboretum Mustila, that might have been one of Scandinavia's most interesting collections of trees. Arboretum located outside the small town of Elimäki and is on the border between the cultivation zone II and III according to the Finnish system, corresponding to zone IV-V of the […]
The contributions of nötjakten and autumn sowing seems to have inspired many and I have received a lot of questions about stratification, Thus thermal treatment of seeds. In the post about the autumn sowing, I described the simplest procedure for stratifying, namely, to sow the seeds directly outside in såbrätten and let them stand outside in the weather throughout the winter. This works […]
As I wrote in the first post of nötjakten in Medelpad, we had the really came into the Västernorrland to check the status of the various Loiko-walnut trees, which is considered the hardiest trees of real walnut (Juglans regia) in the world. In the end, we looked only at Ove Johansson's two trees, but we found out […]
Here in Southern Dalarna, we have had the worst hazel year long. Not even in the great old stocks, there were more than a handful of nuts to find. And so we go to Medelpad and find hundreds of hazel bushes, Most dotted with nuts. How can it be that? Of course, it does already mentioned microclimate large […]
All plant orders is the long awaited, but none has been as exciting as this year's delivery from Westergaard's nursery in Denmark. The nursery specializes in nut trees and other edibles from shrubs and trees. After a visit there in autumn 2013 we ordered a number of exciting plants to Stjärnsund. Lars Westergaard who runs the nursery has high hopes for hybridhasslar […]
Right now blooming hazel bushes in full swing here in Dalarna and have actually done it for a while. Many probably know the male flowers, but how does the female flowers out really? Honblomman looks much like a conventional knob, the difference is that there is a very small flower on the tip of the knob. It can be anywhere from dark red to […]
A while ago I wrote a post about nöttallar where I wrote about the species stone pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Koreans pine (Pinus koraiensis) as the most promising for our climate. A challenge that I then wrote about was that these pines like to take 30 years left before they bear fruit for the first time. One tip I got […]
In the last post in the almost endless series of nötodling in Sweden, I went through the nutritional values of different nuts. The thing that stands between me as a nut lovers and the fine industry is often incredibly hard shell. So how do you get the cores from the nuts really? Before we attempt to answer this question, it […]
I have planted so many different nut trees in Putt Myra forest garden partly because I'm on the hunt for crops that can replace the usual staple crops in the form of cereals and potatoes, but also oilseeds and protein-rich legumes. An important parameter to keep track of, then, of course, the nutritional content of the nuts. First, the nuts […]
