posted 56 minutes ago
Hazelnuts
I know what te books say, pick 'em when they start to change colour.
But, that's a fortnight away. Instead, here is what normally happens. We carefully watch our nuts get fat and test a few each day to see how the nuts are tasting. We say to each other, if the weather keeps on like this, we will get a hearty nut harvest in about a week.
And by morning, it seems like there is about 10% fewer nuts. Nothing on the ground.
And within 24 hours, all the remaining nuts will be gone. Green, no shells, not evidence. Just gone.
So someone thinks they are ripe.
Today.
A whole bunch are gone from yesterday. 8 of a dozen trees completely stripped of nuts!
So I'm gathering green nuts and they taste pleasant, they aren't ripe.
Not sure how to mature them yet, just came in for a cuppa tea and to start off this conversation. For those of you with nut expierence, when do you harvest and what do you do with them to help them last to Christmas feast?
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