How to Harvest and Shell Black Walnuts
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- This is the easiest way I've found on how to remove the hull and crack black walnuts. Learn how to identify the trees and nuts, then the easiest method to process the black walnut fruit.
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I used to think that buying nuts from the store was expensive, but after seeing all the time and labor that goes into them, the price doesn't seem so bad. Great video!
They have machines for most of the hard work.
@@BoomerMulliganI think commercial Walnuts are from English Walnut trees..... 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦
I feel the same way about
Baking~as I buy
Expensive exotic
Flours---millet; quinoa; coconut etc. *It cost me image of expense to make a loaf of bread!"
@@regenamann_0005 was trying to be a smart ass now that I have reread it, I could have said that different lol have a great night
I have found it's 10 times faster, just training a group of squirrels to do all this for me. I pay them for their work with peanuts...
And you are keeping those squirrels out of the bird feeder. Brilliant! Hee Hee, thanks for the humor Tom.
Tom Champman ,lol. You can also let the squirrels eat the nuts and harvest the squirrels .you can empty their stomachs and have crushed walnuts along with meat.Its a win win.
Or you can make squirrel pot pie! lol!
Tom Champman hilarious! My squirrels taunt me by leaving the shells on my deck
I do the opposite to my squirrels😂
My wife and I just confirmed that that nuisance tree with those nasty citrus fruits are in fact valued Black Walnut trees. We’ve lived in Ohio for 25 years and only now come to realize this thanks to the NextDoor app and some kind neighbors. I’m ready to cut open some of these and try my luck at processing them. Thanks for the video...hulling the nuts was the part that many keep leaving out.
You are welcome, Mark. They are tasty. My grandmother used to put a piece of a black walnut on her Christmas sandtart cookies.
Just a quick note if you use a bucket of water to clean the nuts any that float are usually bad and not worth the time to process !!!
Thanks that was gonna be my questions.funny that the squirrels know which ones have nut inside
So, we treat it like gourd seeds? Sinkers are all goodm floaters won't produce a plant next sow time?
Also the water can be use to get fishing worms!
I remember doing this as a child. We would pick up black walnuts on the side of the road. We usually got a couple of bushel baskets full. It was our job to peel and shell them. My mom made a lot of good things with them, though. Thanks for sharing this, it brought back a lot of memories.
I earn my living growing and gathering foods for a handful of fancy restaurants. Black walnuts are one of my fall/winter staple products, so I am doing this on a small commercial scale. I handle the black walnuts almost the same way as shown here with one big improvement on the vise--I finally invested in a Grandpa's Goody Getter, and it speeds up the cracking incredibly. If you can get your hands on one, you can crack the hardest nuts quickly and in quantity. I don't know if they are still for sale/being made and full disclosure, I have no ties whatsoever to the maker. I also crack hickory nuts with it. It has made a big difference in my fall season income as well as being a lot easier on my hands and arms.
www.grandpasgoodygetter.com/
Thanks for the helpful comments. The contribution to the video is appreciated.
They were still being made about a year ago. I use mine for all kinds of nuts, from hazel nuts and pecans to the largest walnuts. It works very well.
@@BeachsideHank very nice video !
Those nuts are almost impossible to break open without destroying the meat inside
Is there any use for the husks? They seem to have a strong dye that might be useful.
What a process!!! There’s a couple of trees in our back yard and I thought about harvesting them, but now I’m just thinking I’ll let the wildlife have them, unless I get desperate. Thanks for the info. Good thorough video!
I discovered long ago that if you wash the walnuts, then pour the water on an area of grass, the night-crawlers will come shooting out of the ground. Collect them and rinse them off, they will be good for fishing.
Also I know that walnut trees and tomato plants do not co-exist
It’s illegal in all states, but if you pour the husks, the water (leaves work too) into a small pool of a fish containing stream, all the fish will float up and you can easily grab them with just your hands. If it is a faster flowing stream, they will recover pretty fast. This works best in a larger pool of slow moving streams, creeks or branch. Like I said tho, it IS illegal but is also a good thing to know in a survival situation or if the world continues to go sideways.
@@GrumpyGenXGramps that’s amazing!
Can you elaborate on walnut trees and tomato plants not co-existing? I've been having problems with my tomato plants and there happen to be walnut trees that loom over.
@@brianedwards5113 There is a chemical in the rind that can leach into the soil killing or stunting the growth of some plants
Here in Ontario we just wait for a couple of frosts then the husk turnes to mush.
Use them ground shells to put in paint you are painting stairs or decks on boats. You let it dry and you will never slip.
Hi. You sound like Jody Foster :)
Someone else has mentioned that I sound like Jody Foster.
BushCraft and Wild Edibles in Central Wisconsin7
yea, she does
Plot twist: It is Jody Foster. Notice that she never shows her face. Hmmm
Trust me when i say i have been eating these all my life, they make the best divinity in the world hands down. Now the ones that were black and you said no good are in fact good, the best way to prepare them is pick them up put them in a bucket and let them turn black and dry up then you just put some gloves on and roll them in your hands and the husk will just fall off, then clean them with a brush. Next crack them with a hammer and let them sit for a while in a dry place then finish getting the nuts out that's the hard part lol.
I think you are missing the point, the dried up black walnut in the video is from the prior year. It's no good, the squirrels didn't pick it up either. If you took the time to crack it open there will be no nut. I'm showing an obviously bad nut. I'm not arguing that your way is wrong.... just trying to show a nut you shouldn't waste your time cracking.
@@Diane_R walnuts like that are usually good down here, we pick them all up and if we crack a bad one we discard it, all I was saying is just because it's black don't mean it's not any good lol if I pick one up and it feels really light I will throw it away
That's how my neighbor use to do them too, but he used a small vice to crack them. A vice doesn't shoot shells or whack fingers, LOL
@@Alwis-Haph-Rytte lol I know about the finger whacking, them are some tough nuts lol
Bro please 😫🙏🙏💓 tell me that Black walnuts tatse good than English or Californian walnuts????
Great video! I find it's much faster just to roll each one under a heavy boot until the seed pops out, then throw it in a 5 gallon bucket with the others (once you've stomped on a bunch). When the bucket is about 1/5 full, swish them around with water and they come out extremely clean (they are abrasive and scratch the meat off each other when being swirled aroun)!
In 1962 (age 12) I spent 6 weeks with a family in France about an hour out of Paris. Their little farm was called "Les Broux", which meant something like "juice of the walnuts". They made a potent after-dinner liqueur out of the walnuts, harvesting them in July when they were small and tender. They quartered the whole nut, husk and all, using a penknife, and added them to a mixture of grain alcohol (and I think some red table wine), water, tea leaves, and sugar in a large covered barrel. They stirred the fermenting mixture every day, and after a few months, strained the liquid. Once aged, the product was jet black and clear, and extremely strong. I can't describe the taste other than sweet with strong tannins (at 12, I didn't have much frame of reference).
Thanks for that interesting story. That must have been potent, as you say. And I am only two years behind you in age.
Now that would be a video I could really get behind
My grandmother had us dump all the hulls on the gravel drive way leading to the house, and than pick up the dehulled shells prior to to first snow. Then the cracking would commence. If we wanted wallnuts in fudge for Xmas we had to earn it.
Yeah we would sack up hundreds and when hull turned black we would dump out on gravel road an d he would roll over them. We put our gloves on ans rubb them clean then dry them
The black gunky walnuts that look bad are alright to harvest. They look bad, but they are perfectly good. I actually prefer them since they are very easy to hull.
I was trying to show last year's dried up nuts. In hindsight, I should have pointed that out. Some people do prefer to let the hulls turn black. I chose to show removing the green hulls, that is the preferred way by professional growers. Either way is fine, it's a personal preference.
They also have the most protein of any tree nut
The black gunky walnuts produce a stronger flavored nutmeat, which most people don't care for. If you hull green walnuts and wash them, you can process them immediately or dry them and hull them later, but they'll have a milder flavor with few or no bitter nutmeats. But, it's a question of personal preference and taste.
@@marknussbaum8394 Thanks! I always wondered why some walnuts tasted bitter.
@@beckywebb1916 , i always wondered about that too. So i never cared for walnuts as they were always bitter when i had them. Now i know why. There are places that will hull them for you n keep the hulls to make iodine.
Excellent instructional video. Clear and to the point. I hate when people are too wordy. You made this so clear to understand and covered all the important points. I have a tremendous harvest of black walnut and may just try this now.
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I now understand why they're so expensive. Pain in the butt to get to.
Thanks for the info about the husks killing plants, I dumped my husks on a unwanted Poison Ivy patch, I hope it kills the Poison Ivy!
Let us know if it kills the Poison Ivy. I tried putting it on some weeds and they laughed at it. Some native plants are immune to it.
it wont kill plants or grasses,
only other long lived trees.
It killed the Poison Ivy, grass & weeds!
It killed the Poison Ivy, grass & weeds.
Thanks for the update Thomas.
Make walnut stain with the hulls.
Wow. I was all about trying to process a bunch.
Not anymore
I put them in a bag and step on it. 5 minutes and a whole bucket is clean. Only the washing takes more time. 🤭but it goes quick with a hard brush.
Jennifer s
They’re plentiful and it makes sense to harvest them. I love them.
But this looked a bit too much per pound. I might give it a try, but it’s probably a skill to get it done quickly and well.
@@larryscott3982 i never did it before. First time was hard but when I fou d out how quick it went by stepping on them I hot me two other buckets. 😁 girst rinsed it a few times with water and then brushed them with a hard naimbrush. Dried them one hour in the oven and tjey lay/hang drying in a net. I never even tasted them so hope I like them. 😳
@@jennifers7037 Well how were they? Did you like them?
Omg that is so much work! No wonder they’re so expensive in the store.
Harvesting is a bitch too. We don't have this exact species of walnut where I live but around here we hit the nuts hanging on the tree with long sticks, and oftentimes we have to climb the tree to get to the rest of them. Then just pick them from the ground.
@@wendelltidwell830 You should show us a link to your website...then we can check it out.
They have machines to do all that.
i bet that brazilian walnuts are picked by people getting one dollar per hour, it is the middle man making all the peanut butter.......
@@ronvalley1973 - Hey Ronnie- Because of currency difference, $1 could be a lot of money in some countries but yes that is still not enough for labors
If you keep the nuts in a mesh bag, uncracked, they can last for years. I have nuts that are 5 YEARS OLD and they are darn tasty, still.
I never tried to store them that long, thanks for the information.
Yes. In fact, to a point, the dryer the nut, the tastier it is. Drying concentrates the flavor. The same thing for pecans.
Do they taste like commercial walnuts, purchased from stores?
Not just they are tasty, they are much healthier, if cracked right before eating. The minute we open them the fats in them start becoming rancid. Some nuts faster than others. I do not even bother buying Brazil nuts or hazelnuts not in the shell.
My nuts are fifty years old and I never store them in a mesh bag! As to how tasty they are you will have to ask the wife!
Boy this brings back memories of my Grandfather teaching us grand children to do all of this fifty years ago!
Out on Uncle Louie's farm there were hundreds of Black Walnut trees that we harvested from and hunted in those pristine 200 acres.
A great memory.
yeah i can remember my dad showing me when i was little... we had a tree but we never really harvested them but since he did when he was a kid he showed me how... they are seriously messy though and will stain your hands for a long time.
...use the hulls to make dyes and wood stain.
Dat dude I suspect you do.
Missourian
You may want to consider that you are a terrible person.
lol
busting all kiiinds of nuts. aaaall kinds!
Black and brown dyes I know! 😀
I was wondering how you plant them. I collected some and didn’t wear gloves to take the nut out. Stained fingers for days afterwards
I never tried planting them, though in the wild, it's likely the squirrels plant the trees. Here's a link to a page that tells how to plant them: hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2008/8-27/walnuts.html
Pretend you are a squirrel.
I made that mistake not too long ago. lol I'd never harvested them before. I found out really quick that the hull juice makes a great stain! My hands and nails were stained for a couple of weeks. lol Lesson learned! 😂
Joy Underwood I just did the same and my fingers look like I've been playing in dirt 🤣 I should have found this wonderfully detailed video first!
that is how they invented walnut stain for wood.....
I really love walnuts but...........that's a lot of work!!! No wonder they're so expensive in the stores!
Kathryn Miller I have a few black walnut trees on my property and I watched this video to learn how to harvest then, but after watching this, I think I'll just buy them at the store...lol
I'm fairly sure the walnuts sold in stores are Carpathian or English walnuts , not black walnuts.
I agree, it's hard to find black walnuts for sale. We have a dry goods store run by some of the local Mennonites. That's one of the few places I've seen them for sale. A friend of mine was processing them and was selling them to the store. The friend told me there is a place in the midwest, Kansas, I think, that processes them.
Morris Lipshitts .........oh Morris, I wish laziness was the reason. Have a wonderful weekend! 😊
I assume the process for all walnuts is the same, isn't it? My mom just bought a house with a walnut tree (no idea what kind) and the fruit looks the same. I came here as well to learn how to harvest them. Not sure she will want to lol
Fastest way to crack a walnut - give it to our Blue & Gold Macaw, done in about 3 seconds :-)
i planted a tree in my yard when I was 6 im now 50 and the tree is about 130 feet tall im going to try this for the first time.
That's cool, you have a very special tree. I was out for a walk in my local park and saw a couple of the walnuts have dropped to the ground.
The raw black walnuts hull can apply to the skin cancer and heal fast too it create the heat on the skin, but don't worry about it
Add more on this skin cancer thing, please
I pour about 50 gallons in my driveway and we just drive over them for several weeks. When the husks turn are black and dry i just pick the nuts up from around them and put them in a bucket.
1.5x speed makes this video tolerable.
I haven't been near a walnut tree in many years. But just watching this video immediately reminded me of that distinctive odor they have. I could smell it through the video, lol.
Iodine.
My Grandpa used to give us a large burlap sack full of walnuts to take home. He had a lot of trees! I never knew how much work it was processing them.😮❤😊
Thanks for the video. I harvested 3 large basketfuls and have kept the cleaned nuts in the shell in my garage all winter. I tried shelling before with a hammer but the nuts didn't want to come loose. I left one basket out on the deck for the squirrels one cold winter day, assuming I'd never have the patience to shell more than one basket.... They were gone in a couple of hours. How do the squirrels shell these things!? I will get out my vise and see what happens!
You are welcome. It's most effective to start clipping away at the round end of the nut with the pliers.
I've wondered about the squirrels too, they must have some really sharp teeth. They seem to magically know if a nut is bad and won't bother to shell it.
Squirel teeth keep growing as they are worn down. And with their teeth being small they can build a high pressure on the shell with a small force. Actually my dogs have been getting some too and my vet claimed her teeth were still fine.
B. Weezy v
Was I the only one hoping she'd save some husks for stain?
I am surprise you didn't mention about the stain of the black walnuts. Black walnuts have a deep rich flavor.
If you wait, the hulls turn black, rot and are loose. rub them off. let nuts dry for 6-8 weeks or more. the nutmeaty shrink a little from the shell , a little easier to get out. I have given away 13 brown grocery bags so far, and have kept 3 for myself. one tree. other tree, very few. used to dye stuff as a child, now it is just my fingers!
hammer n good anvil works quicker
The northern black walnut may not be native to New York state but the state is lousy with them now and the discarded Halls are great for making brown and black wool dye if your spinner.
Several people have commented that New York state has Black Walnut trees. I did my best to research the locations where they might be found. I used a source that I thought would be accurate, though I have no way of verifying the information.
@@Diane_R Well I wasn't saying they were native to the area I'm saying that they're here now and they're everywhere Syracuse or almost everywhere. Or am I mistaken two species of black walnut? The bark and leaves in the nuts are the same so I'm not sure. 😀
Thank you for the information, I have used the husks to make wood stain and dyes. The wood is beautiful when used in making furniture and is a nice hard wood. I also like the nuts in ice cream with a bit of toffee.
I have a black walnut tree and i run mine over with the lawn mower. I never ate one simply because it too much work and a very messy job for such little reward. The video was very informative though. Thanks
Same here. After the lawn mower chops the nuts open the squirrels have a field day.
Thank you! I've got a couple black walnuts and the fruit is dropping. When I was a kid, we had an English walnut tree by the horse arena. My horse would break those open for my dog who patiently waited. It was hilarious to watch but not so wise to interfere with their bonding moments
You are welcome. Wish I could have soon your dog and horse. lol.
@@Diane_R manifesting ^_^
Great video. Thanks, 60 years ago when I was just a little fella my grand mother would gather the walnuts into the gravel driveway and when the cars ran over them the hulls were removed from the nut shell. But like I say that was 60 years ago and the cars had different tires that were more balloon like. But it worked great. After a few days she would just gather the nuts, shell them and she made the best cakes with those walnuts.
Good to hear you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the compliment and telling about a fond memory.
Wholesome TH-cam comments right here.
Papa Steve I remember hand cranked black walnut ice cream . That was so good .
Thats the way my dad did it
Thank you for the helpful video. I have 9 Black Walnut Trees and 5 Hickory Trees on our property here in West Virginia. It's the first week of October. You can hear the nuts falling all over the place. I'm teaching my 8yo Grand Daughter that the trees are giving us free food. She set up her Bench and Sandbox and started husking with me. She named her "Store" The Nut Palace....
That's so cute. She is going to have a fond memory of her time spent with you.
My dad used to say a man could sit on top of a pile of hickory nuts with a hammer and stone and still starve to death, thank goodness for chicken....
I still do NOT like to mess with them, in the wild. To messy. Arkansas has several places that will do this for you.
Excellent detailed, instructor video! Thank you for taking the time to share it with the world!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Never a better tasting vanilla ice cream complement.
Might do it this year since covid everything is so expensive.. I use to get syrup from my black walnut trees.
I live in Iowa and bought a house with a walnut tree. I'm new to this kind of tree and I'm not sure if it is a black walnut, but is the process the same?
The rotting hulls make good leather and trap dye I just put hulls in a half bucket of water then set traps in for a couple of weeks
Squirrel Hill Farm
Ues I thought so ! How long does the dye last? How do you make your dye?
Also an ingredient in furniture stain/polish. The hard shells are pulverized and used as an abrasive.
Bexaida Candelaria try here for better details
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- I use a bit of alcohol mixed in the fermented hulls for leather.
Part of my reply disappeared- try here for leather dye questions
www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/board,57.0.html
The halls of black walnuts actually have medicinal value as does the shell
tincture kills parasites....re Dr.Hulda Clark
Steven Compston
My dad used juice from the hull to get rid of a ringworm I had when I was a kid. Still remember him stopping at a house in town and asking the man if he could have a few. I was maybe 5 years old. It turned my skin brown but worked.
I heard the hulls have sulfur compound in them. That is why they can draw the infection from tooth ache and jaw deterioration from a bad tooth.
If you wait until they brown up and full of worms you can mix up some great furniture stain.
You cam use the water after washing to find worms for fishing! Pour water were you have seen worms before and when they come up put them in a bucket of clean water to rinse them off. Then go fishing!
Curing 4-6 weeks is just in time for Christmas cookies. Black Walnut cookies are my favorite
You are doing to much.... Here in North Carolina we collect them and place them in a shaded dry area that don't get wet even when it rains. Then we wait till the outside shell rotts and turns black and dried up.. Once that's done we place them on a screen and grind them back and forth with your boots and all of the dried shells fall off...easily.... Then you just rinse them off with a water hose and just let them dry... Easy as that
Hi Charlie, thank you for commenting and sharing your method for removing the hulls. I don't have a shaded dry area to do as you suggest, that's why I use one of the many methods I suggest for removing the hulls. I'm sure that your way will be useful advice for some viewers, again, thanks for taking the time to comment. I'm not partial to any method, I suggest that people experiment and adopt practices that work best for them.
The Indiana Nut Growers Association recommends removing the hulls promptly, from their website: "If black walnuts are left in the hull/husk (the softer, green to brown outer
shell) they will mold. The hull needs to be removed. If you leave them in the
hull too long after they fall off of the tree, they will transfer color and
flavor to the nut meat. "
I’m exhausted just watching the process!
The diagonal pliers work great - thanks! After hulling, a spiral drill bit for stirring paint is a good way to agitate the nuts.
Anyone who wants to come to my house and pick these things up is welcome. They fall by the hundreds. I just hope that none of them sprout!
aspec42 I went to the nursery this weekend and 3 foot tall black walnut trees were selling for $30 apiece. $29.99 to be exact, just saying…
@@patdrewes5279 The nuts dont grow but the squirrels love them. How on earth they open these things is beyond me. I have tried placing them on concrete and whacking with a hammer, running voer them with my car tires....all to no avail............
I remember my family and friends filling gunny sacks with the fruit and driving over them slowly a few times. Gloves and old clothes are mandatory because the green "juice' really permanently stains. We would crack the nut with a ball peen hammer. We also picked hickory nuts, much smaller but easier to open.
That sounds like a fond memory, thanks for sharing it.
My Grandma used to have me pick them up off the ground underneath the tree when the outer hulls had turned dark. Still had to wear gloves so our hands wouldn't get stained. She made the best black walnut cake with them!
Do you have the recipe? Sounds like a great family recipe to share
I had a black walnut tree in my yard in Gainesville, Florida. And yes, they ARE native to Florida. Maybe it's a different species? When the tree dropped its fruits, I got the nut out of the hulls, and tried to crack the nuts. No luck. I put them on the concrete of my driveway and hit them with a big steel hammer. It cracked the concrete, but not the nut. I gave up. At the time (this was about 19677), I didn't know about curing, so maybe that's what I should have done - let them cure?
Thanks for taking the time to comment, David. It seems many people have mostly found memories of cracking the nuts or favorite foods like Black Walnut Cake or Black Walnut Ice Cream... that sounds really good! My grandmother always put a Black Walnut on top of her Christmas Sand Tart cookies.
I've had other people report trees outside of the range my research said they grow. I tried to use a good source, but couldn't drive around the country looking for Black Walnut trees, lol, that would be a really weird hobby.
There seems to be two schools of thought on removing the hulls. The commercial growers remove the hull ASAP when it's green and other people like to let the hull turn black and dry a bit, then remove it. I found that if you don't let the nuts cure before cracking, they are soft and wet.
The walnuts are also really fragrant.
Counting our next door neighbors tree, I grew up helping 'harvest English Walnuts from 3 trees yearly. We waited for the rains to start causing them to drop. If the tree was ready you would see the hulls splitting open before they hit the ground. When the amounts falling daily, start increasing, my Dad would get his long 'limb trimmer' out. Without cutting the branches, he'd grab hold of one and shake it bring any more ready to drop down , hopefully breaking the nuts away from the green outer shell...then like you did... remove and wash the rest of the of the green off. With not much sun in the Fall in Oregon, our walnuts were laid out on old window screens - in the basement, in two different attic spaces, and in the area/ room at the top of the stairs on the second floor. I don't remember any being set up in our bedrooms but they would be all over the house, including the hallway on the first floor. And it seemed to me they were left drying for at least a month, my brother and I got to keep the nuts regularly turned and rolled around during the drying time. After that we used a nutcracker to open the shells.
Interesting and informative. I am in New England, and I've got several large black walnut trees at the edge of my yard.
Cool! They are in Cambridge, MA now. I went on a walk with my son and his wife and we found a bunch of them (at Fresh Pond).
The traditional Ozark way is to dump them out on the county gravel road in front of your house and let the passing cars run over them to remove the hulls.
did that often as a child
brushcreek42... would I95 work? Lol never heard of using passing cars!
brushcreek42 wouldn't you have people think they could collect them since they are on the road?
My neighbor said that people put them in the driveway and drive over them. I've got a bumper crop this year (1st in the new home)
Robert - Would be a mite dangerous, especially picking them up!
Leave them for the wildlife.
You forgot the part about making ice cream with thee black walnuts. LOL
LOL!
I put about 50 of them under two sheets of 3/4 inch plywood then push down and rock them back and fourth causing them to separate
I have 10 of theses trees on my property in Louisiana
Lucky you, hold on to them. I hope you don't let the walnuts go to waste, if you don't want them you can sell them as a money crop.
Pick them up this fall leave them sitting till spring or sooner they will open on their own. At least the outside hull will.
they'll also be moldy and inedible. Best flavor is from getting the husk off as soon as you can, then let them dry and cure before cracking. There is a tremendous difference in flavor between what you crack out at home and the commercial nut bits that have been water processed. Of course, studies also show that many people these days think peaches should be hard and crunchy because that's all they've ever had from the grocery, and don't want a soft and juicy actual ripe peach. To each their own, and tastes differ.
@@coop5329 peach, tomatoes, watermelons, nothing is as it was.
That's just nuts.
Sort of a combination of Pine and Iodine before cutting or breaking them open. So yes it does have the smell of Iodine more so as it turns black. I just finished cleaning off the nuts to dry and the hull flesh left on the nut smelled strongly of Iodine as I was cleaning them. It deeply dyed my gloves an iodine yellow, and the water a rich warm dark brown. If I'd had some cloth I wanted to dye I would have tried it.
I dye wool with walnut husk dye. It makes a gorgeous deep to light golden brown! 😍
The car method is how it's done here. The toxin prevents other tree species from growing nearby.
Looking over the comments the car method seems to be the most popular way to remove the hulls. That's how we removed them when I was growing up. I don't have a gravel driveway..... so I had to adopt another method.
Great way to bust the nuts!!!
You can use the hulls to make a wood stain after they turn black. You can also make a walnut tea out of the hulls that is good for stomach problems. I have 250 anchors of black walnut tress.
Richard family farm Homestead : "acres"?
Wow !
Where are you folks to visit?
You can make a tincture also that will heal broken teeth and cavities...may take a while but swish it in your mouth like mouth wash everyday for a couple months and it has been known to grow back teeth if there is still a root...
Jack Of All Master Of None Nope. Can't regrow bones with plants. You've got one shot with teeth. No second chances. LMAO. Hilarious though.
You can regrow bone with plants! How do you think you can heal from a broken leg or arm or whatever. All you need is calcium, one of the best calcium source is Alfalfa which is a plant. Also sea vegetables and Leafy green all high in calcium. Our bodies can do amazing thing. I don't know if this can regrow teeth or not, won't know until you try it.
You can as long as there are original roots...oh..and your body grew the teeth in the first place and every bone in your body can heal itself...teeth are no different with the proper help..instead of dentists drilling out the roots and filling with a dam piece of epoxy...
Having had Black Walnut Trees on a farm I can tell you that there is a very easy way to remove the shells and if you are wood worker you can use the outer shells for Black Walnut Stain. Let the outer shells turn black (this is where the stain comes from). Place a tarp on the area where you park your vehicles (Does no harm vehicle or tires). Place the walnuts close together on the tarp. Place another tarp on top of the walnuts and proceed to drive your vehicles over the walnuts. We removed the shelled walnut everyday until they were all shelled and then left them to dry completely (no mold). The inter shell will only crack if the nut is not good. I have heard this is the lazy person's way to hull, but it works very well (better if you are using a tractor).
That is extremely slow and time consuming.
Lol my brain was way ahead of her talking. I was like what is going on.. I realized my video speed was changed lol
I crack in the vice the same way. One thing I like is that you got the beautiful walnut trees from below, a nice sight.
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Most people just use high explosives.
That's the Wile E. Coyote method! lol!
Seriously. This is a ton of work for a tiny little bit of nut.
My grand mom had sereval black walnut trees in her yards ,in miss. We would just take a rock on her big front porch to these nuts.
The distinct citrus smell is like lime or lemony.
Reminds me of Aruba. 🥰
Oh, I am so annoyed. Why can’t I just crack them with my hand? Do I have to do all that curing process or whatever?
She sounds like jody foster in some part
Best video on this subject. Thanks!
You are welcome, Christine!
I love the tip for using a bench vise. I knew that in the 1800s the brown water from soaking leftover green skins was used to make hair dye and then happened to find a lock in an old family Bible so I'm pretty sure that's what it is. I used the dye on some white doilies and they came out a beautiful ecru color. I'm ready to harvest mine now so this has been very helpful. Black walnuts, especially with chocolate, are ambrosia to me. Thank you.
You are welcome. I've never tried making dye. Since walnut trees and the brown water is supposed to be toxic to some plants, I've experimented and dumped the brown water on some weeds. The weeds just laughed. I've read that a lot of native plants aren't bothered by the toxins.
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I wouldn't use the dye on my own hair or something that would come into bodily contact a lot because of the toxins, but other things probably wouldn't be bad. Common sense being key.
Love black walnuts, they have the best flavor....try Krogers' Black Walnut Ice Cream.....I think you will love it.....makes a great cake also, and wonderful chocolate fudge Candy....us it like you would any nut.....but it is expensive but so worth it.....and prepare for your hands to discolor for a couple days.....they do leave stains on your hands, but will come off in a few days....the more you have them in water.....[
We had several walnut trees around our house in Arkansas when I was a kid. We would collect the walnuts when they fell and dump them in a low spot in the driveway and let the cats drive over them. In a day or so we would collect them, clean the hulls off the nuts, and wash them in well water. Then we could crack them at our leisure.
You had cats that drove? th-cam.com/video/5fvsItXYgzk/w-d-xo.html
Several area FB members have posted 'free walnuts, you pick' & was wondering the process. Result? I'll gladly pay what the grocery store charges for having it already done.
For cleaning the hulls off, even when they are unripe you can fit a circular wire brush attachment on your power drill. Strips those babies nice and clean, although one by one.
Thanks for the suggestion Forest.
Check out Grandpa's Goody Getter, black-walnut cracker, here on YT: unfortunate name; insightful concept. It's clear from the video that these are made in small quantity and are not going to be around forever, so get one before they're gone.
"I have no relationship with the company or to the family. I am however a satisfied customer."
Wow......just toooooo much work!
I loved the video though. Nicely done
Thanks. It was fun making the video, it's great to see that a lot of people are enjoying it.
Don't park under them! Back window of my hatchback shattered. They're like small baseballs.
I use a rubber mallet to smash multiple nuts making it easy to remove. I put them in a bucket of water until I get enough to fill two paint cans for my paint shaker. They come out very clean ready to rinse and dry. My main tree is good but elsewhere I am finding the nuts infested and dropping early. Most are floaters indicating bad nuts. Could be the drought in Northern Illinois.
Thanks for commenting Edward. The trees here started to drop a lot of nuts in the past day or two. Sorry to hear that you may not have a good crop this year.
I discovered that my nuts are floaters.
thats exactly how i did thousands of black walnuts tryed many ways over the years A TUFF NUT TO CRACK
They're NOT worth the HASSEL! Regular walnuts please.
Never husked walnuts before but I wish I watched this first. I did your method just assuming that was the best and didn't know to where gloves. Let just say my hands look awful 😭
The chemical is called (Iodine) a natural anti bacterial and disinfectant. Which is why people use the hulls to make black walnut tincture.