Nuts

At the back of our garden we have two walnut trees. the first we planted there ourselves from a germinated nut we got from a friend. This one has medium nuts falling in the second half of September.

The second grew there on its own, growing faster and has larger nuts falling in the first half of October. It also produces many nuts that are not symmetrical. Seen from the side the point resembles an birds beak. I call them my angry birds.

Two years ago I found three trilobed walnuts under the second tree, and I did nothing special with them. As a result of my negligence, my kids cracked them and ate them all. They said they tasted just like the others.

Last year I also found three trilobed walnuts, and this time I kept them safely in a drawer of my desk during the winter and planted them in the spring, but none of them sprouted. Then I found tutorials on the internet on nut germination and stratification and so on. I promised myself to seriously plant the next batch.

This year was a good year for nut cultivation. Our walnuts are bigger than ever, and I found no less than nine ten eleven twelve trilobed walnuts.

I have searched the internet for the answer to my question whether these trilobed walnuts can grow into trees that produce more or only trilobed walnuts. I have not found an answer to this day, hence my experiment to plant these trilobed nuts and document their growth into trees in this blog.