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 an episode about hazelnut cultivation on the delightfully nerdy Trädgårdtrollet's Garden Podcast. In the conversation, we talk a lot about which varieties are worth cultivating, I tell you about the best way to harvest in time […]
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. As it was previously at best a handful of nuts this year we have been able to rake in more than 2000 nuts. Although I hazelnuts harvested in the wild often felt […]
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 […]
