Nuts or Nuisance? The fast way to husk Black Walnuts - E108
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Gather Ye Nuts While YE May! It’s that time of year with the Walnuts just falling from the trees. What to do with them? We are nuts to show you!
Let’s get crackin’! Make hay while the sun shines or in this case collect the walnuts and husk them for processing! Is it hard? It certainly is messy! Come follow along and save what you can. Desperate times call for conserving what you can! Walnuts are a great way to do this. The trees are a great hardwood and produce a high protein food! They easily reproduce when the squirrels plant them. Perhaps I can get the nuts before the squirrels do!
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Drill a hole in a bucket lid. put the bit shaft through it, before you put it on the drill. Then you have a splatter guard and no more spilled mess.
that is an excellent idea!
Right!? ❤
How did your garden bed do after pouring off the water? Wonder if the iodine and juglone content inhibited any growth??
For a small quantity (1000), I first dehusk them while they're still yellow. Use a scrap of plywood with a hole in it the size of the nut and a hammer to drive it through the hole. They roll down a ramp to the hole and I can process about 1 every 5 seconds (have to tend it a bit).
If you do that when they're still yellow, you can avoid a huge amount of mess.
Then I wash them in a 5 gal bucket with a grout stirrer (on my drill).
Amazingly, the nuts are almost always the same size.
As far as dumping the effluent, I'd like to hear from a master gardener what their opinion is of the effluent resulting. I've never had a problem.
I just dump mine onto the gravel drive and drive over then a few times! They keep the grass down in the drive!
Don't forget to wear gloves (walnut will stain your fingers for 2 weeks~!) and that walnut pulp will prevent anything from growing in that spot next year, so be careful of where you pour to husk mud!
Exactly right. I hasn't seemed to effect my potatoes yet, but I think it needs to come out before long. Thanks for reminding me!
the staining isnt bad, just turns your hands black for a bit. no biggie. However a good chunk of people are sensitive to juglone, the toxic chemical. Generally everyones fingers will be fine cuz the skin is thick, but get that black tar on your arms and in between your fingers and youll end up with a pretty gnarly chemical burn thatll start blistering in 2 days. I learned this the hard way. lol
Thanks. Got 3 full hulled buckets to rinse clean. :) gonna be delicious. Got 36 trees yahoooo :)
dang... I call a tree buyer with 36 trees. I started picking these up 2 years ago, sell some to Hammons and keep about 10-20 pounds for myself to hammer away at during winter.
Im trying something new this year.i built a storage bin from old pallets and lined the sides with chicken wire.going to try storing them with the husks on,and see how that goes
leaving the husk on they will dry up but they are a big pain the backside lol good luck on them
Does this work with green husks?
I just step on it while it's green. Nut comes rite out. Then I put them in a bag.
too much work begin with your last step, skip the drill and rinse go right from the ground to the indoor screens come spring, the dry husks will drop right off - may have to kick them around a little dry husks sweep right up, no wet mess no need for the nuts to be clean before cracking
You're saying you don't have to remove the husks? I would think that will take up a lot more space.
True. Removing husks when green is a lot of messy hard work. Removing the husks when dry and brittle is much easier . No machinery - just a little stomping or whack with a 2x4. Worth the trade-off for me. You need a space to lay out flat for drying - and keep the squirrels out. My garage works for me.@@PeaceIntheValley
Not in your garden! Juglone will ruin your soil! 😮
What do you do with them? Seriously? Home made black walnut mint chocolate ice cream. I use Ben & Jerry's chocolate ice cream recipe, substituting Ghirardelli baking chocolate. Amazing. AFAIK, I invented it. You're welcome. Home milled red wheat bread with black walnuts and Craisins. Tollhouse cookie recipe w/ 2 cups of chopped black walnuts. The hull slurry is a nearly perfect rust preventative for steel. Drop steel parts in the slurry and leave it for a week, stirring once. The steel will be charcoal gray/black and won't rust for years. Similar to bluing, but easier/cheaper. Left over slurry kills weeds, shrubs, even trees (not black walnut trees).
thanks for the info. I'll have to give the coating/curing a try. We'll certainly be cracking the nuts soon and seeing what we can do with them too!
You definitely are not prepared for or have the equipment needed to do it efficiently.
You are speaking the truth there! This is the first time I've tried it and it worked. Next time would be working on making it more efficient. What do you do to make it work better?
@@PeaceIntheValley Well, first, I have all my screens/strainers cut to fit my wheelbarrow. It makes pouring the water off and moving the sludge around easier. Second, still using 5 gallon buckets but soak and blend smaller batches to cut down on the mess and spills. Also, I recommend to NOT pour the water and sludge directly on any plants/crops. Make a separate composting pile and allow a few rains to weaken the acid levels.
Here in southern california got enough nuts . . .use to be a while back pretty duty-free but today too many nuts Too many nuts
I thought it was not to be thrown into the garden, which will kill your plants
That is what I was told too, but I had no growing problems with the plants in the bed where I dumped the "sludge" this year. In fact, that bed produced our best potatoes again - and we didn't plant them - some got left from last year.
@@PeaceIntheValley thanks, will give it a try
NOOOOOO. THERE IS A COMPOUND IN WALNUTS THAT IS HORRIBLE FOR GARDENS! SET THAT CRAP ON FIRE!!!
Juggalone. Only a few plants and grass will grow. It will kill maple trees.
It does not.kill.my maple trees!!!