Comments on: Hazelnuts / Filberts In My Garden

By: Master Nut Cracker « Homeplace Earth

Master Nut Cracker « Homeplace Earth — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:14:51 +0000

[...] the hazelnuts (filberts) and peanuts. My husband had also given me small vice grips to use for the hazelnuts, an improvement over my other methods. I thought my hazelnuts would be too small for the Master Nut [...]

By: Growing Protein « Homeplace Earth

Growing Protein « Homeplace Earth — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:06:57 +0000

[...] per pound. My hazelnuts form a border on the north side of my garden. I wrote about hazelnuts at http://homeplaceearth.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/hazelnuts-filberts-in-my-garden/. Hazelnuts trees can be pruned, with the trimmings feeding your rocket stove. These nuts also [...]

By: Pamela Klein

Pamela Klein — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:56:13 +0000

I bought two different varieties from Edible Landscapes near Afton, VA, and they actually had a few nuts on them in the large containers. They are doing very well but sheep got out and nibbled off a lot of the branches so am starting over again!

The vicegrips work great on cracking pecans too, you can get an entire whole nut out once you get the pressure right.

By: Using a Piteba Oil Press « Homeplace Earth

Using a Piteba Oil Press « Homeplace Earth — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:13:48 +0000

[...] the hazelnuts, since my nuts are the small native variety. Find out more about growing hazelnuts at Hazelnuts / Filberts In My Garden. The yield for one cup of homegrown hazelnuts, weighing 5 ounces, was 3⅓ tablespoons oil. The [...]

By: Homegrown Fridays 2012 « Homeplace Earth

Homegrown Fridays 2012 « Homeplace Earth — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:00:38 +0000

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By: Cindy Conner

Cindy Conner — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:03:54 +0000

Vicky, I’m not familiar with the hazel cracker you mentioned. I recently got a Master Nut Cracker for black walnuts and found out that it also had smaller “anvils” for using with hazelnuts. I thought that my hazelnuts might still be too small, but it works great for all but the very smallest, just cracking the outer shell and leaving the nutmeat whole. http://www.masternutcracker.com. The nut cracker I had used previously for black walnuts is no longer manufactered. The one I used I’d borrowed from a friend. Your nuts might be bitter because of when they were picked, how they were stored, or just that that tree yields different tasting nuts. I’ll probably write another post about hazelnuts in the fall and talk about this nut cracker.

By: Cindy Conner

Cindy Conner — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:45:05 +0000

Jonah, you can grow nuts for other people, but then you have to teach them how to eat them. Nut trees add another dimension to the permaculture garden and diversity is always good. I love growing food that can store well without doing anything really special to it. Onions, garlic, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cowpeas, peanuts, and winter squash all fall into that category. Butternut squash is a good long lasting winter squash. Acorn squash perishes sooner and is more susceptible go insect damage.

By: Jonah Holland (@lewisginter)

Jonah Holland (@lewisginter) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:07:33 +0000

I had no idea you could grow hazelnuts in Virginia. I learned so much from this blog post. We grow food for Feedmore’s Community Kitchen Garden here at Lewis Ginter and they are always looking for healthful foods that have a good shelf life. It makes me wonder if we could grow hazelnuts or pecans for them since they seem to store so well.

By: Vicky in VA

Vicky in VA — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:59:13 +0000

I purchased my plants from St. Lawrence Nursery in NY. They were listed as hazelberts…a cross of some kind? Either way they are producing very well after 4 years here in central VA.
Have you seen the plans Martin Crawford has for a hazel cracker? I think it is something that does more than one nut at a time and that the plans are contained in one of his AgroForestry News booklets but I haven’t seen it.
We found the single nut cracking somewhat tedious and some of my nuts were bitter . I think this came from the papery covering, not the nut itself.
I’m hoping you’re going to include processing/recipe ideas in the next post. Thanks for the great blog!
Vicky

By: Cindy Conner

Cindy Conner — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:17:55 +0000

The closer you can find the new trees, the better. Maybe those with good hazelnut trees will begin to propagate them and give, sell, or trade them locally with others. If trees have been grafted and the original trunk dies, what grows up from below the graft won’t be the same as what you had planned on. That happened to me with a mulberry tree I bought. I had put the tree in the chicken yard and wasn’t banking on any particular harvest for our kitchen, so it didn’t matter. The chickens don’t care what kind of berries they’re gobbling up.