I like the hanging basket idea for drying that’s a good idea to keep the squirrels out so one 5 gallon bucket is basically a half a bushel you’ll have about 25 pounds of in shell nuts there, One whole bushel of knots should give you about 3 pounds of kernel
I rolled around that largest bag this morning and sure enough there was a little mold growing on a few of the shells. The rain and humidity has change the equation. I emptied the bag out on the garage floor.
@@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner Yeah I guess you can’t leave them outside because of the squirrels but a lot of people will put them on a tarp and have them out in the driveway on a sunny day what I do is I kind of use like a Haywagon or manure spreader and put them in them and I’ll go and stir them with a shovel occasionally to make sure that all the nuts are getting air to them and I’ll do that for about 6 to 8 weeks outside and then when we have a week of dry weather and no rain and I think they’re pretty dry I’ll crack them
Thank you. I picked 3 grocery bags yesterday. Today, I started taking off the husks. Will finish the rest tomorrow. I don't have chicken wire, so I sewed up 4 cheese cloth bags last night I think they will air out and dry just fine in the bags. There's such a satisfaction I have. 😊
Enjoyable video. I've really been blessed this year. We collect in feed sacks and I've honestly lost count of how many sacks we've hulled so far. And I still have six more to hull. I dry on stackable bread flats around my wood stove. I store in old pillow cases in a cool dry spot. Black walnuts are one of God's most perfect foods. I eat some, I sell some, and I give great gifts. :)
I used to use the "cut the hull with a knife" method like you do, but now I hull them much faster. I now have a pile of whole walnuts to my left on a counter, since I'm right handed. I have a cutting board on top of the counter and I simple roll/smash each walnut on the cutting board with a wooden board about 18" long x 1.5" wide. I can hull about 500 walnuts per hour with this method. Outside of a mechanical method, this is the fastest way I have found to hull them. I normally hull and process 5000 to 8000 black walnuts every year. Give it a try and you'll wonder why you didn't do this before. :)
I found a forgotten box of nuts in our outbuilding. They were 2 years old. I cracked one (with difficulty, shell was hard as a rock😂) but nut inside was still perfectly preserved.
Thanks again! Just picked up the ones from around one of the trees near my friend's place. Only got a little under three gallons, and literally a third of them were floaters, but I'm guessing that'll improve as the season progresses.
How can you use the husks for compost or even the "tea" from it? Don't walnut release something that makes it hard for anything to grow around it? Not too many things can grow under a black walnut tree.
Lots can grow with black walnuts. There is a study that suggested if soil is loose and full of soil life there is little effect. Compost I make the aerobic bacteria eats the juglone.
The water from soaking the green husks is great for collecting nightcallers for fishing. Pour on ground and pick up crawlers when they come shooting out of the ground. Just be sure to drop them in fresh water right away for a few moments to remove the irritant from their skin.
I love black walnuts and I enjoy watching our people harvest them and crack them store them but I learn my lesson with fruit trees fruit trees and black walnut don’t mix I noticed you have pear trees real close have you ever had problems with the fruit trees? If so I bet it got something to do with those walnuts anyway Nice Video
Hi, question have you ever gotten a rash or hives because I just used gloves and realized the black walnut green hulls touch my side arm and felt itchy and had one hive bump, any recommendations or experiences or what to expect! Is it normal ? Also seen worms inside of it while there still green on some of them and is it safe ?
I don't have a problem with the husks but have heard of those who have very bad reactions. These have worms too but they don't bother me. I was thinking of trying them for fishing.
@@az55544 oh I’m sure it is but definitely not in any affects that’s going to affect plant growth any place that I have dumped walnut halls the grass is growing great and at the hauling locations where they purchase black walnuts the halls go directly in a manure spreader and are spread directly on the fields they wouldn’t be putting it on the fields if there was a problem
This is several video of people showing how to get walnuts out of the green skin - don't these black walnuts come out of their husk when ready on their own?? If that's the case I wouldn't bother planting such variety of walnut tree. Our European walnuts just fall down from the tree clean while the husk stays on the tree - simple harvest. 👍
I recently realized I had two Black Walnut trees in my yard. I harvested them and de-husked and put them in a mesh bag to dry for a couple of weeks. When I tried to crack a couple of them open to try them they had a really bad sour/rancid smell and the nut meat was still kind of soft. Is this normal? Will allowing them to cure longer get rid of the sour taste or cause the meat to solidify more like other nuts? Thanks.
This takes too.much time. I sit on a 5 gallon bucket on a concrete slab. Put 2 husks under your feet (old shoes) and roll them under your feet. The husks just roll off. Then throw nuts in another 5 gal. bucket. Get rid of the husks (i put them in a burn pile). When bucket is 1/2 full, i fill the bucket with water. Using a stall fork (new) i agitate the nuts to clean them. Drain in a plastic milk crate. Then back in the bucket and repeat. When shells are clean, i put in a garden wagon with cardboard. Move them around to dry them completely. Then i store them in a used mesh grain bag and hang it from a barn rafter to keep rodents away.
Wash them after peeling away the husk in sand with water. About a third of a bucket with sand add some water and swish them around. My older videos on black walnuts I show this.
Electric pressure washer works great. Put about 50 in a 5 gallon bucket and give them a good hosing. Do this about 4 times and the walnuts will be perfect.
After I husk them, I put them in a bucket spray em with the hose while the bucket fills with water. Then I use a pole and really stir them around for a bit. Drain and repeat this process for a few more rinses.
I like the hanging basket idea for drying that’s a good idea to keep the squirrels out so one 5 gallon bucket is basically a half a bushel you’ll have about 25 pounds of in shell nuts there, One whole bushel of knots should give you about 3 pounds of kernel
Ok, thanks for the information on weight.
I rolled around that largest bag this morning and sure enough there was a little mold growing on a few of the shells. The rain and humidity has change the equation. I emptied the bag out on the garage floor.
@@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner Yeah I guess you can’t leave them outside because of the squirrels but a lot of people will put them on a tarp and have them out in the driveway on a sunny day what I do is I kind of use like a Haywagon or manure spreader and put them in them and I’ll go and stir them with a shovel occasionally to make sure that all the nuts are getting air to them and I’ll do that for about 6 to 8 weeks outside and then when we have a week of dry weather and no rain and I think they’re pretty dry I’ll crack them
@@michiganhay7844 Good idea.
Your videos always inspire me to live a more mindful life
Thank you. I picked 3 grocery bags yesterday. Today, I started taking off the husks. Will finish the rest tomorrow. I don't have chicken wire, so I sewed up 4 cheese cloth bags last night I think they will air out and dry just fine in the bags. There's such a satisfaction I have. 😊
Thanks for the comment!
Enjoyable video. I've really been blessed this year. We collect in feed sacks and I've honestly lost count of how many sacks we've hulled so far. And I still have six more to hull. I dry on stackable bread flats around my wood stove. I store in old pillow cases in a cool dry spot. Black walnuts are one of God's most perfect foods. I eat some, I sell some, and I give great gifts. :)
Just wonderful work.
I used to use the "cut the hull with a knife" method like you do, but now I hull them much faster. I now have a pile of whole walnuts to my left on a counter, since I'm right handed. I have a cutting board on top of the counter and I simple roll/smash each walnut on the cutting board with a wooden board about 18" long x 1.5" wide. I can hull about 500 walnuts per hour with this method. Outside of a mechanical method, this is the fastest way I have found to hull them. I normally hull and process 5000 to 8000 black walnuts every year. Give it a try and you'll wonder why you didn't do this before. :)
I watch other videos and see all different methods. I want to not use machines as much as possible. I'll try this method and see what happens. Thanks.
Thank you for this video. You're 100% right with eating healthy. We have 3 black Walnut trees and I want to learn to do this, thank you for sharing.
You're welcome!
My grandfather,my dad and now myself harvest blackwalnuts. Highest protein of all the nuts..
It's that time of the year again!!! I made some black walnut liqueur this summer from some of the immature ones and they came out great
Not many here this year. Excellent supporting comment!
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen.
Good info, I also use the husks as a natural dye to dye my traps black also have dyed canvas items a dark color
Thanks for the idea!
I found a forgotten box of nuts in our outbuilding. They were 2 years old. I cracked one (with difficulty, shell was hard as a rock😂) but nut inside was still perfectly preserved.
Thanks for sharing the impromptu experiment!
Thanks again! Just picked up the ones from around one of the trees near my friend's place. Only got a little under three gallons, and literally a third of them were floaters, but I'm guessing that'll improve as the season progresses.
Excellent report!
A third is typical
Squirrels instinctively know and leave the hollow ones😂
I like it. Thanks for sharing.
I eat a few 4-5 ties a week. Its my vitamin pills.
Great information and video. Thanks.
Thank you!
Thanks, learned a lot, God bless
Are they still good if husks are black? I have a yard full but since the cold set in, they went from green to black in a week on the ground.
I think so. I've cleaned them before and they were good. If the husks are skinny they will be hard to skin off.
How can you use the husks for compost or even the "tea" from it? Don't walnut release something that makes it hard for anything to grow around it? Not too many things can grow under a black walnut tree.
Lots can grow with black walnuts. There is a study that suggested if soil is loose and full of soil life there is little effect. Compost I make the aerobic bacteria eats the juglone.
The water from soaking the green husks is great for collecting nightcallers for fishing. Pour on ground and pick up crawlers when they come shooting out of the ground. Just be sure to drop them in fresh water right away for a few moments to remove the irritant from their skin.
That must drive the squirrels nuts not having access to all those nuts!
They are still trying, they can force the nuts through the chicken wire!
I love black walnuts and I enjoy watching our people harvest them and crack them store them but I learn my lesson with fruit trees fruit trees and black walnut don’t mix I noticed you have pear trees real close have you ever had problems with the fruit trees? If so I bet it got something to do with those walnuts anyway Nice Video
There is a study that indicates soil with lots of life, the soil life eats the juglone. I have only had one apple tree die so far.
nice video .i like nuts , i eat nuts all the year...good oil for health.
Excellent point.
Hi, question have you ever gotten a rash or hives because I just used gloves and realized the black walnut green hulls touch my side arm and felt itchy and had one hive bump, any recommendations or experiences or what to expect! Is it normal ? Also seen worms inside of it while there still green on some of them and is it safe ?
I don't have a problem with the husks but have heard of those who have very bad reactions. These have worms too but they don't bother me. I was thinking of trying them for fishing.
@@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner thank you
@@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner I believe the worms are fly larvae. They crawl in a lay their eggs where it is warm and moist.
Interesting!
I just stomped on mine to break the husks 😅
Ok then!
Nice
Are you not concerned about using juglone in your compost?? I would think eventually you’d have a problem with toxicity to your plants.
No. The first time I did because it was an experiment. No problems through aerobic compost.
Juglone is in the roots
@@michiganhay7844 Oh!
Juglone is also in the hulls and, to a lesser degree, leaves and branches/stems.
@@az55544 oh I’m sure it is but definitely not in any affects that’s going to affect plant growth any place that I have dumped walnut halls the grass is growing great and at the hauling locations where they purchase black walnuts the halls go directly in a manure spreader and are spread directly on the fields they wouldn’t be putting it on the fields if there was a problem
This is several video of people showing how to get walnuts out of the green skin - don't these black walnuts come out of their husk when ready on their own??
If that's the case I wouldn't bother planting such variety of walnut tree.
Our European walnuts just fall down from the tree clean while the husk stays on the tree - simple harvest. 👍
Without a doubt more work.
I had 3 walnut trees and I definitely couldn't grow tomatoes.
Do you know if the green part is ok to give to chickens?
I don't know. There is a study on pigs and no problems reported.
My chickens weren't interested, I thought they'd eat the maggots but they ignored the pile
@@jules1896 Ok, Thanks for the report.
We don't try to eat them for a couple of months because they have a tendency to make mouths sore.
I'm just going to start now.
I recently realized I had two Black Walnut trees in my yard. I harvested them and de-husked and put them in a mesh bag to dry for a couple of weeks. When I tried to crack a couple of them open to try them they had a really bad sour/rancid smell and the nut meat was still kind of soft.
Is this normal? Will allowing them to cure longer get rid of the sour taste or cause the meat to solidify more like other nuts?
Thanks.
I've never had that happen. Did the shells have any signs of mold or mildew? Try soaking the kernels for 24 hours in salty water.
This takes too.much time. I sit on a 5 gallon bucket on a concrete slab. Put 2 husks under your feet (old shoes) and roll them under your feet. The husks just roll off. Then throw nuts in another 5 gal. bucket. Get rid of the husks (i put them in a burn pile). When bucket is 1/2 full, i fill the bucket with water. Using a stall fork (new) i agitate the nuts to clean them. Drain in a plastic milk crate. Then back in the bucket and repeat.
When shells are clean, i put in a garden wagon with cardboard. Move them around to dry them completely. Then i store them in a used mesh grain bag and hang it from a barn rafter to keep rodents away.
I can do about 100 in less than an hour.
That's fine with me. I still am working through them the same way.
I'm losing my sanity trying to do this....Can't get the remnants of the husk off.
Wash them after peeling away the husk in sand with water. About a third of a bucket with sand add some water and swish them around. My older videos on black walnuts I show this.
Electric pressure washer works great. Put about 50 in a 5 gallon bucket and give them a good hosing. Do this about 4 times and the walnuts will be perfect.
@@alkaufmann2039 Nice! However, I don't want to use a machine if I can help it.
After I husk them, I put them in a bucket spray em with the hose while the bucket fills with water. Then I use a pole and really stir them around for a bit. Drain and repeat this process for a few more rinses.
This guy's fingers are going to be a mess!
No problem for me.
Oh man I bet that made terrible compost. I’m sure if you didn’t add a lot of lime you would have pH issues.
lol. This material makes the best compost. I even grow nice crops in it straight.