The interest in growing hazelnuts in our northern climate seems to be increasing and in the middle of this year's harvest season I was interviewed for a section on hazelnut cultivation on the wonderfully nerdy […]
A long wait is over. Seven years after we planted the first hazelnut bushes in our garden planted with trees, we were now the first real harvest. When it used to be at its best […]
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 even ordered a hand-cranked nutcracker too […]
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. The arboretum is located […]
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 autumn sowing, I described it […]
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 are considered to be those […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? The female flower looks […]
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 […]
