For quick drying I fine thar seedling flats work well and hold roughly 100-110 walnuts in one layer. I set one seedling flat upside down and the one holding the walnuts, I set on top on the upside down one. This gets the walnut seedling flat up off of the ground and gives it more air circulation. I then set them under my woodstove over night to dry but I know not everyone has a woodstove. I also use the seedling flats in the washing process. I fill a 5 gallon bucket about 1/3 full of nuts and then cover them with water by a couple inches. Use a drill and paint stirrer or mortar stirrer to agitate the nuts for a couple minutes then pour the nuts onto the seedling flat. Use the hose to rinse the sediments off the nuts and rinse out the bucket. Dump the nuts back into the bucket and repeat 3-4 times. The seedling flat that I use actually fit into the 5 gallon bucket for easy transfers. You can set the seedling flats with the clean nuts in the sun on a warm sunny day. Maybe even turn another flat over on the top of them to protect from squirrels. Squirrels aren't much of a problem in my area though. When the nuts are really dry, I dump them into a milk crate for curing. One 5 gallon bucket of cleaned nuts will fit in a milk crate. I stack the milk crates by my woodstove but a cool dry place with good airflow will work too. The seedling flats are something I discovered this year. We have lots of them from picking up 48 packs of tomato seedlings from the local nursery. When hand washing black walnuts like you showed, I found I had to repeat up to 12 times to get them real clean. It works but the mortar stirrer and drill makes the job 4 times faster.
English walnuts have a much larger nut, are far easier to break into and are the nuts you’ll buy for baking or just eating. I personally felt that black walnuts are a little sweeter though 😋
Interesting. I was thinking just the opposite as the larger nuts were much easier to de-husk, but was also thinking the smaller nuts may not have been as ripe, thus making them harder to de-husk.
@@RiverLifeWV umm, yes, the greener nuts were probably the English walnuts, when de husked are normally around the size of a golf ball. Very easy to crack and with a little practice you can get both sides of the nut out complete which is nice for cake topping 😊🇬🇧
English walnuts are the ones that you use in your cookies and fudge and such. Smoother and thinner shells they are the ones Santa puts in your stocking.
Get plastic vege bin with holes in the bottom and hit them with a power washer with a rotary nozzle.The water drains out and you only have to do it once
English walnuts have less density, even the good ones float! Reclaim those you tossed and check them out. Unless yours are different from mine, they will be good!
For quick drying I fine thar seedling flats work well and hold roughly 100-110 walnuts in one layer. I set one seedling flat upside down and the one holding the walnuts, I set on top on the upside down one. This gets the walnut seedling flat up off of the ground and gives it more air circulation. I then set them under my woodstove over night to dry but I know not everyone has a woodstove. I also use the seedling flats in the washing process. I fill a 5 gallon bucket about 1/3 full of nuts and then cover them with water by a couple inches. Use a drill and paint stirrer or mortar stirrer to agitate the nuts for a couple minutes then pour the nuts onto the seedling flat. Use the hose to rinse the sediments off the nuts and rinse out the bucket. Dump the nuts back into the bucket and repeat 3-4 times. The seedling flat that I use actually fit into the 5 gallon bucket for easy transfers. You can set the seedling flats with the clean nuts in the sun on a warm sunny day. Maybe even turn another flat over on the top of them to protect from squirrels. Squirrels aren't much of a problem in my area though. When the nuts are really dry, I dump them into a milk crate for curing. One 5 gallon bucket of cleaned nuts will fit in a milk crate. I stack the milk crates by my woodstove but a cool dry place with good airflow will work too. The seedling flats are something I discovered this year. We have lots of them from picking up 48 packs of tomato seedlings from the local nursery. When hand washing black walnuts like you showed, I found I had to repeat up to 12 times to get them real clean. It works but the mortar stirrer and drill makes the job 4 times faster.
My brother cleans. He has black walnuts with his pressure washer. Good video.
Thanks!
English walnuts have a much larger nut, are far easier to break into and are the nuts you’ll buy for baking or just eating. I personally felt that black walnuts are a little sweeter though 😋
Interesting. I was thinking just the opposite as the larger nuts were much easier to de-husk, but was also thinking the smaller nuts may not have been as ripe, thus making them harder to de-husk.
@@RiverLifeWV umm, yes, the greener nuts were probably the English walnuts, when de husked are normally around the size of a golf ball. Very easy to crack and with a little practice you can get both sides of the nut out complete which is nice for cake topping 😊🇬🇧
As far as I'm concerned the squirrels are welcome to the nearly tasteless English walnuts, but I'll fight for the black walnuts!
Good to know!
English walnuts are the ones that you use in your cookies and fudge and such. Smoother and thinner shells they are the ones Santa puts in your stocking.
Thanks!
Get plastic vege bin with holes in the bottom and hit them with a power washer with a rotary nozzle.The water drains out and you only have to do it once
Thanks! I've never had so many. Probably thousands on the ground.
Good tip 👍🏻
@@RiverLifeWVyou”ll be busy then😁.By the way,the water will probably kill your grass.
Cool thanks
Madison Ohio,we had tons of black walnuts, to bad i was allergic to them 🥶
Makes sense that the black would be the black walnut.
Yes, almost makes too much sense 😂
English walnuts have less density, even the good ones float! Reclaim those you tossed and check them out. Unless yours are different from mine, they will be good!
Wow, wish I would have known that!