My neighbor also grows a fair amount of skeeters in the kids size swimming pool that
They look real nice
Wordsmiths make my knees go weak
Those black walnuts were a bitch. I remember my grandma spending hours on the porch getting the meat outta them. She had black ink stained hands for days afterwards. They were delicious in her apple cake tho. I’m too lazy for all that. I have a mature black walnut tree in my yard and when they fall they are either dog toys or lawnmower ammo.We always used baskets to gather and dry (cure?) them in.
When the hulls are dried and the nut ready to be cracked
and I think... safe to now eat, the hulls are easily removed
as they will separate naturally from the nut shells.
Hope this helps.
We used to also harvest black walnuts when I was young.
All the green nuts went into the dirt driveway and my folks
just ran over them with the cars repeatedly until the green...
then ucky blackened hulls, were separated from the shells.
Then we harvested the nuts from the driveway and they too
were stored in the baskets until cured (?) and ready for cracking.
Mom's kept us kids busy for hours on end learning
how to successfully crack the different nuts harvested.
Was a good winter time activity learning how to bust
open varying species of nuts w/ a hammer on the concrete
basement floor lol
Hickory nuts require a fair amount of finessing
to get anything other than mush whist wielding
a hammer in a child's hands haha
We sure did get good at it as it was certainly
a friendly competition to see who could harvest
the largest pieces w/ out smashing the living
shit out of the shell/ nut meat
My neighbor also grows a fair amount of skeeters in the kids size swimming pool that
doesn't get dumped after play time. I think this year I am going to let her know that is
skeeter breeding grounds and if they don't want to get (more) chewed up... dump it after use.
I would certainly appreciate not increasing the already over
abundance of those voracious vampires in our immediate area
It’s gonna be 100 today here with heat index 105. I have four plants to transplant in mid heat today for my porch.Gonna hit 90 for a couple days............motherfuccker!!!!!!!!
That's telling him imiubuWordsmiths make my knees go weak
How's that for a slightly leaning foray into said lasciviousness haha
It’s Hot Why Not ?
And... the hulls STINK! when they blacken... eww.
Good morning dear. Stay cool todayPlanning ahead is what we (hopefully ?) learn as we age IMO
Good morning to you
Today is gonna be too hot to engage in any mischievous lasciviousness
Just ramping up here, sigh.
My favorite is pistachio ice-cream
My man! Me too! A good indoor activity when not flying solo.I would lean toward the debauchery IMHO first
Some cunning linguists on this thread.Wordsmiths make my knees go weak
How's that for a slightly leaning foray into said lasciviousness haha
I love black walnut ice cream and know what you mean about the stains and tedious extraction. We broke the shells with a hammer and picked out the meat with special picks.
Some in our freezer as we speak.My favorite is pistachio ice-cream
