Walnuts and Oaks: Fall Field Notes

manitoba grown butternuts getting hulled, a couple of passes in the water and they come out cleaned off

then we pack then into peat moss and refrigerate. they are available in packs of 10 on our seed shop, and we also have year old trees in our...

manitoba black walnut trees, year old trees in pots are ready to ship canada wide, or get fresh walnuts for seed to grow

you own. most people on the prairies don't realize you can grow these large nut trees here, they're fully cold hardy in zone 3, and we've be searching for and collected seed from large heavy producing walnut trees around...

black walnuts starting to fall on this tree, though I've heard from others their walnuts have all dropped

black walnuts can grow in Manitoba, I've been collecting them from large trees around the province so we have the cold

hardy genetics. I had no idea until a few years ago that you could grow walnuts here in zone 3 / -40. there are trees in small pots and even plugs in our fall sale, plenty of...

butternut trees have these great compound leaves as long as my arm, great canopy

acorns are available on our shop

I can ship them in small packs of 24 by letter mail worldwide, and we have a larger 100 pack inside...

packing black walnuts for the winter, first time trying this with pots

we’re filling crates with the small pots then covering them in damp wood shavings, seems to work. by laying them down the...

butternuts

locally sourced in Manitoba. First time I’ve had them off the tree, the husk is much thinner than a black walnut. I’ll husk them this week and get a count, might have enough to add to the seed shop along...

collecting black walnuts for seed next spring

finally got to try this wheel tool, I picked it up for acorns but it...

walnuts starting to drop in southern manitoba

acorns from last fall (left) and today, looks different right

same tree, same genetics. we had a mast year in 2023 and the oaks all over produced so the acorns were a mix of sizes with many smaller ones. this year’s acorns are more average size for the 50 year old bur oak, they’re...

black walnut seedling in a 3

5” pot. I found this pot size to work great for walnut and butternut, with our short growing season there’s just the right amount of roots. Also...

more photos of this black walnut growing at the local research station, large and full of nuts this year

If you read about black walnut growing in zone 3 /-40C you’ll find either the trees are borderline hardy, or if they do grow they won’t have nuts. I’ve found 3 large black walnut now growing in Brandon, Mb that fruit...

acorns vacuum sealed are so cool

these are easy to put in a mailer and send out, vs just in a...

zone 3 (-40F) black walnuts processed, I let most of the ripen before using a paint mixer to dehull

with some luck and caged in squirrel proof beds there will be...

I have 2 sizes of black walnuts from different trees, which one is more common

or is it like apples and it varies year to year depending on fruit load? smaller nuts were from a tree having a mast year I think.. very new to walnuts (ref...

excited to grow some walnut trees in the spring from locally sourced black walnuts

they are rare on the canadian prairies, until recently I had never seen one. if you google their cold hardiness you might find something like “borderline zone 3-4 and won’t fruit in zone 3”. A few trees in Brandon Mb...

i can pack 24 acorns into these seed packets and the mailers fit through a mail slot - so I ship them worldwide

with a stamp. letter mail is so cool, breaking the rules a bit but who just...

Bur Oak acorns are dropping, and it’s a race with the squirrels to collect them

We have these available for seeds, something cool about planting a tree that can live for...

bur oak acorns now available on our website, linked in our bio

They should be planted right away, and will germinate this fall if the weather is warm enough. We collected these from wild stands of local trees. www.oaksummitnursery.ca...

shade cloth comes off the greenhouse this time of year works good to catch acorns