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Index of Subjects Yes the Butternut Tree in Crousetown, Lun Co, NS was likely planted there. Many on this forum will remember Nellie Snyder who was an all-round naturalist, expert in birds, plants etc. The tree was on her property. Nellie is someone I truly miss sharing nature observations with. And she thoroughly enjoyed reading the postings on NatureNS. She only got into computers when she was 90. Nancy On 2016-11-01, at 8:02 AM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Nancy, > many thanks for the tip re drying butternuts. So, all it takes is patience.. Yes, butternuts sucker easily. But they germinate easily, too. Unfortunately they get grazed, by parties unknown, a lot. The butternut tree growing in the woods near Crousetown in Lunenburg County: Is it located at an abandoned homestead? I do wonder how it got planted there. > Butternut populations throughout its natural range (NE USA, southern Ontario and Quebec) have been devastated by the butternut canker, a fungal disease. In 1998 the disease has been found in the separate N.B. population, but N.S. still appears to be canker-free. So it is extremely important not to inadvertently spread the disease from N.B. to N.S. > Dusan Soudek > > > ---Original Message----- From: NancyDowd > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 4:41 AM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] harvesting butternuts ? > > My mother used to bring back boxes of butternuts from her family home in Sussex Corner, NB and we just left them in the basement (warm and dry from the furnace) for a month or two and then cracked them with a hammer to eat. In the open oven of the wood cookstove was even better and the nuts were good to go in a few weeks. > > I started two butternut trees from root suckers harvested from a butternut tree growing in the woods in Crousetown, Lun Co, NS less than 10yrs ago. They are doing well on my mother's lawn in Bridgewater. The small trees are now producing a decent crop of butternuts. So very easy to propagate if you are interested. > > Nancy > E Dalhousie, Kings > On 2016-10-31, at 8:45 PM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > >> I have recently become interested in butternuts (Juglans cinerea), which are native to the St. John River of New Brunswick but with at least one small reproducing semi-natural population in Halifax. But how exactly do you harvest the nuts? The “meat” of the fresh nuts is delicious, but difficult to extract unbroken from crushed nuts. According to the internet you are supposed to dry them until you hear the “meat” within the nut rattling when you shake it. >> I guess the same goes for other nuts, such as wallnuts or “heartnuts.” Any idea of how long, and at what temperature, you are supposed to heat them? >> Dusan Soudek >
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