Walnuts and prickly pear fruit

**Ketchn** · 09-07-2021, 05:23 AM

Our walnuts are looking pretty fat and the prickly pear fruit are ready .
we don't see many black walnuts in these parts anymore ,my wife didn't even know what they were on the tree when we passed .
of course our deer could care less about them as the acorns are just starting to drop one a day in some spots .
the pecans are spotty ,some trees have a decent crop ,some not so much ,the same with the acorns this year .
one thig for sure , I bet the hogs will eat all of it , they ain't picky for sure

**DockShootinJack** · 09-07-2021, 05:34 AM

I was loaded with the Walnuts last year.
The deer walk past the walnuts to eat the mulberries out by the road.

**MCG1** · 09-07-2021, 06:21 AM

Even the nuts are bigger in Texas, eh? I'm struggling to get my apple trees to bear fruit and have planted mulberry trees in hopes that they will be more successful.

**SuperDave336** · 09-07-2021, 06:38 AM

We had tons of pecans last year. Not sure about this year yet. I haven't even looked in the trees....lol. Been to busy with yard work to look up. Never had a prickly pear, are they similar to regular pears?

**Redge** · 09-07-2021, 07:20 AM

Hogs will eat those black walnuts like candy!

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**S10CHEVY** · 09-07-2021, 12:55 PM

Usually with nut trees, and acorns, they have a very productive year, and then a sparse year. We had hickory trees and still have a walnut tree, which will be dropping lots this year. Neighbor across the road has lots of o9ak trees. About black walnuts, best thing to do is get the hull off, then put them in plastic bags, put in freezer for 3 months, then crack them open.

**DockShootinJack** · 09-07-2021, 04:40 PM

This year the black walnuts are almost none existent. The mullberries did not make at all. And not the first catalpa worm to be had.

**Ketchn** · 09-08-2021, 05:37 AM

i know this much , you ever have a black walnut tree near a concrete pad and it will be a mess in the fall for sure

**DockShootinJack** · 09-08-2021, 05:40 AM

I have to keep them picked up out of the driveway. I usually dump them down an embankment. That area then becomes squirrel mecca. They will reduce it to a pile of hulls and cuttings

**Ketchn** · 09-08-2021, 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

We had tons of pecans last year. Not sure about this year yet. I haven't even looked in the trees....lol. Been to busy with yard work to look up. Never had a prickly pear, are they similar to regular pears?

they are sweet , but difficult to deal with , lots of seeds and tiny prickly "fur" on them .
you singe the fur off them and then boil them or bake them and run them thru a strainer ...
they are sort of tart at times and taste pretty good , we make jelly and margaritas with them in this part of the world

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