Harvest 2021
It was a bad year for Juglans regia: late frosts delayed the flowering of the male flowers, resulting in fewer nuts. A cold and wet summer leads to many blackened nuts. Afterwards, the parakeets nibbling damaged many of the nearly ripe nuts. I harvested about 3/4 less in 2021 than in 2020. I only found 1 three-lobed nut in the garden, and it didn't germinate. I also found a tree with large nuts, and one of them was a three-lobed nut. I collected nuts from Juglans nigra, Juglans mandshurica, Juglans cinerea, Corylus colurna and stratificated them over the winter. These are for planting nearby during squirrel walks.
