Guest guest Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Here is some info I have Also I would pitch the ones with a whitish mold. the ones turning brown and all brown you can use... The hull is the covering around the nut shell How to Harvest and Store Walnuts Walnuts come in two types: the familiar English walnut and the native American black walnut. While the English walnut gives up its hull fairly easily, removing a black walnut's hull takes some doing - so much so that some hardy souls have been known to drive over the hulls with a car. Steps: 1. Harvest walnuts in early fall, from September to October. 2. Knock or shake hulls from the tree once the shells are full but while the hulls are still intact, or gather them off the ground as soon as they fall. 3. Remove the hulls, protecting your hands from stains using rubber gloves. Rinse with water to remove the tannin. 4. Spread the shells in the sun to dry and cure for two to three weeks. Kernels will break cleanly when bent if completely dry. 5. Keep nuts in the shell in a cool, dry area for several months. You can also shell nuts and refrigerate them for several months, or freeze them for longer storage. AND THIS BIT.... all you really have to do is to collect them when they fall. They should have a somewhat green hull around them. Now when you do collect them don't waste the hull. That hull is good for many different uses of which one is to remove parasites from your system as well as deworm your pet.You'll probably need a hammer on the hard ones to break the hulls. Then you can collect the hulls and grind them up and make a tincture out of them. The black walnut tincture is also used for treating alot of skin disorders like sebboria, and psoriasis as well as deworming and antiparasitical treatments. bwurthy <bwurth@...> wrote: Hi - Questions ... This is our 2nd year in this house. We have 2 black walnut trees in the yard and the squirrels got to most of the walnuts last year. This year however, there are green walnuts all over the yard. We just collected a bucket of them and I have no idea what to do with them. Some are all green, some have a whitish mold and some are starting to turn brown, some all brown and hard. Anyone here an authority on walnut harvesting, haha I need advice!I saw some posts about the cat tinctures - but is there something I can do with them now? Sorry to sound ignorant ... until I saw the recent posts, I just thought you wait til they turn dark and hard and then crack them for the nuts. __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 This is the year of the Black walnuts, I love those hulls. Take the hulls and get a large container to boil with, I use a five gallon container and boil about twelve nut hulls and what ever else you want in but the walnut is the main ingredient. Your skin will be so smooth. We have not had the nuts for almost two years now but the trees are full of them we are going to fill two fifty gallon container full of them, seriously, that way we will have them until the next cycle of nuts. Read up on the baths you'll find it wonderful. --- Suzanne <suziesgoats@...> wrote: > Here is some info I have Also I would pitch the > ones with a whitish mold. the ones turning brown > and all brown you can use... The hull is the > covering around the nut shell > > How to Harvest and Store Walnuts > > Walnuts come in two types: the familiar English > walnut and the native American black walnut. While > the English walnut gives up its hull fairly easily, > removing a black walnut's hull takes some doing - so > much so that some hardy souls have been known to > drive over the hulls with a car. > Steps: 1. Harvest walnuts in early fall, from > September to October. > > 2. Knock or shake hulls from the tree once the > shells are full but while the hulls are still > intact, or gather them off the ground as soon as > they fall. > > 3. Remove the hulls, protecting your hands from > stains using rubber gloves. Rinse with water to > remove the tannin. > > 4. Spread the shells in the sun to dry and cure for > two to three weeks. Kernels will break cleanly when > bent if completely dry. > > 5. Keep nuts in the shell in a cool, dry area for > several months. You can also shell nuts and > refrigerate them for several months, or freeze them > for longer storage. > > AND THIS BIT.... > > all you really have to do is to collect them when > they fall. They should have a somewhat green hull > around them. Now when you do collect them don't > waste the hull. That hull is good for many different > uses of which one is to remove parasites from your > system as well as deworm your pet.You'll probably > need a hammer on the hard ones to break the hulls. > Then you can collect the hulls and grind them up and > make a tincture out of them. The black walnut > tincture is also used for treating alot of skin > disorders like sebboria, and psoriasis as well as > deworming and antiparasitical treatments. > > > > > bwurthy <bwurth@...> wrote: > Hi - Questions ... This is our 2nd year in this > house. We have 2 black walnut trees in the yard > and the squirrels got to most of the walnuts last > year. This year however, there are green > walnuts all over the yard. We just collected a > bucket of them and I have no idea what to do > with them. Some are all green, some have a whitish > mold and some are starting to turn > brown, some all brown and hard. > Anyone here an authority on walnut harvesting, haha > I need advice! > I saw some posts about the cat tinctures - but is > there something I can do with them now? > Sorry to sound ignorant ... until I saw the recent > posts, I just thought you wait til they turn > dark and hard and then crack them for the nuts. > > > __________________________________________________ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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