Black walnuts
Here are one of the bags of black walnuts i collected off the side of the road. Actually i had been driving down one of the main roads to town and would dodge these. Yesterday my son and decided to stop and see. I realized they were black walnuts. We are from washington state so we had no clue. So the two of us not wanting to miss the chance at a free score begain filling our shirts and dumping them in on the floor of the suburban.
Knowing we didn't have much time since we had to go pick up the wife from work we hustled to get as many as we could. I'll go get the rest today.
So this is me separating the husk from the hull that holds the nut.
You can see that they are really easy to brake apart. There wet kind of mushy. Some do have little worms in there. (Dont worry there small wont eat much lol) No really they only eat the husk and dont bother the nut.
Here is a little closer look at the hull coming from the husk.
Now a closer look at them without husk.
Now after i do all that i give them a good wash and put in a old potato bag that has a bunch of hole. They need good air flow to help dry without molding.
Oh crap i should mentioned first wear gloves lol.
Yes you may have herd the hull from the black walnut can be boiled down and used for dyes. Iam going to try this to stain some pallet projects i have. Well this is just something were doing on the homestead and wanted to share. Thank for checking out.
Black walnuts are absolutely worth the effort. Especially once you get the hand of cracking them open! Nothing else tastes like black walnuts. The English walnuts in the store aren't even close. Like @coffeetime said, driving over them is such a traditional, and fun, way to get those hulls off. I've also played a lot of "scuff a nut" with heavy workboots! Enjoy all your tasty treasure! :D
We had black walnut trees on our farm in Wisconsin. We would collect buckets of them and spread them on the driveway. The cars and trucks would break the hulls. We would later pick them up and lay them out on the floor of the back porch to let them air dry.
Great idea thank you for the support.
I have processed so many black walnuts that way -- and my parents, and their parents. It is such a traditional way to get those hulls off. And lots of fun for everyone. I have such happy memories as a kid doing that with my granddad in his driveway that sloped so steeply. There was always so much commotion and clutch work, lol. And all the neighbors were doing the same thing.
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Great pics! Thanks for posting! I always love it when people post videos or lots of pictures!
Wow thanks. We just want to start showing people what we do here on the homestead.
It will be nice if we can also just pick up walnuts on here. :D
Well maybe theres something else you can harvest. Thank you
Yes, gloves first. It is a messy project but they are so good. Show us how the stain does on the pallet wood, please.
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After they cure i will be doing update on dying projects. Thanl yoi so much.
Great post. I'm still hoping to drop by for a visit next time I drive through, wouldn't mind trading for a few of those. :) Good work.
That would be awesome dude. Ill save you some nuts. Thanks dude
For the first time I see black walnuts! I am surprised. We have ordinary walnuts, but they are solid inside and look differently.
Wow they do look different thanks for the picture.
Oh boy, black walnuts! We got a bunch from Craigslist for FREE ....but we didn't know what we were getting into. It was quite labor intensive to scrub the black mess off and then to pry out those insides. The funny part was that we left overnight and all the dried nuts in hulls we cleaned off, a squirrel made off with
A whole paper bag full gone!
Yeah iam finding it tough also. And dang squirrels better leave my nuts alone lol.
Are they edible by humans?
Yes let them cure and crack them and eat. They are really good.
do you think these can be found in the lower region of florida. i'm in the tampa area.
Iam not sure but i could look for you.