Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[babylady4]

The leaves and nuts contain the highest amounts of the toxin, I do not believe 50 feet is far enough. Once a plant/tree is impacted, there is nothing you can do to save the plant.

Squirrels are the most effective planters of those nasty walnuts. If you have one on your property you will have many, many, many trees on your property unless you are constantly on top of all the transplants.

Blackberries will survive the toxin.

https://waynesboronurseries.com/plants-survive-walnut-trees/

 

[wyoDreamer]

After reading that info on the web-site posted, I think I will be OK.
1. The walnut trees will be on the opposite side of the driveway as the orchard - roots will grow slower under a compacted, gravel driveway.
2. The leaves and fruit will not be near the apple trees.
2. Our soil is fairly sandy and loose. There is a lot of life in the soil, I always find tons of worms when I dig. Healthy soil life will aid in breaking down the juglone - wet, poorly aerated soils in urban areas lack the micro-biology that breaks down the juglone.
3. English walnuts do not have as much juglone as black walnuts, so that will help also.
4. I may not be around when these tiny little trees reach a maturity to impact the orchard area, lol. In optimum growing conditions, it takes about 30 years to get fully mature trees.

 

[jvls1942]

One of my Royal Palm turkeys built a nest in the nut grove. she scraped together grass, twigs etc. laid 13 eggs. none of them hatched. I attribute that to the area she chose to make her nest.
so far I have some grapes that are surviving. But I started a new arbor about 100 feet away. I have a jack pine grove right next to the nuts. they are surviving.
black berries seem OK. and I have a volunteer elderberry in the middle of the blackberries that is doing OK. so far....
playing with black walnuts is like Russian roulette. IMHO
We lucked out with that last storm.
It went to the north and to the south of us. All we got was a short cloud burst for a few minutes . And some lightning. we lost land line phone and internet until the next morning. Any lightning does that to us.. The line man knows exactly where to go look to fix it..
.........jiminwisc......

 

[TOR]

I saw couple days ago 50 percent chance storms so readied my second area for corn and took a chance. Storm went just south of me it was very close and one further north.
Planted yesterday and sprayed. Takes awhile with my older equipment.

1 last area to plant about the 10th to the 15th.

first area is up and growing.

 

[bigzio]

Good tor read everyone is doing fine. FFF here was great like always. I shared another 4 doz eggs with the good neighbor. The hens have been laying well and the roo's are doing their thing with a 80% hatch rate this time around.
Gardens are planted and hope the frost doesn't kill all my early efforts.
The new Kubota tractor with tiller is a godsend for time saving...I gave my Ford 8N to my son. He will enjoy it I'm sure.
Been busy here like everyone.

Stay Safe..bigz

 

[jvls1942]

New Kabota ?? I knew there was a reason you gave the Fjiord to your son.
We had a good freeze here last night. I covered some pots and put a tote full into the garage. I haven't checked on them yet.
I hope the frost is over now until late fall.
Now I can start the container garden.
.......jiminwaUSAu........

 

[bigzio]

Yep Jim, the dealer was only gonna me $800 for it, so it was a no brainer to give it to my Son. He is gonna convert it to 12 volt too. It will serve him well I'm sure.
Venison loins and big grillin shrimp tonight along with a huge deep pie plate with fresh wild asparagus, mushrooms, onions and jack cheese.....Delicious.

Stay Safe... bigz

 

[jvls1942]

Yean, those dealers don't want an old tractor sitting there so the customer is forced to buy a new one.
Tell your son to put in a solid state distributor while he is at it.. Expensive, but never have to mess with contact points again..
my four tiniest tomatoes did not make it through the frost / freeze. I have duplicates for then in larger sized plants. so no problem. Less pots to water all summer.
my asparagus crowns were sprouting in the refrigerator so I took them and planted them in pots until I can get the strip of ground ready for them.
the rhubarb and garlic don't seem to be affected by the frost. I covered the strawberries and they look fine..
Annie set out her dried up lemon grass.
I pulled all the dry stuff out and there seems to be plenty of green potential. I think some sun and water will bring it back..We don't use a great amount of it. but it sure smells nice.
......

 

[babylady4]

The mutants are getting huge.... Saturday is the big day! I have two looking a little purple; I hope they make it a few more days....

 

[jvls1942]

did you ever notice in pictures of chickens, when they are outside, they are all walking around, And then you see a picture of those cornish/X and half of them are lying down.
Yesterday I scored two Zone 4 bing cherry trees in pots. $25/each.
I started getting the asparagus bed ready. will work on that today. Then will plant the cherry trees. I need a handyman..
..........jiminwisc.........