Hazelnuts.
I bought and planted a tiny American Hazelnut 4 years ago. It was so small I wasn't sure it would survive, but it did. Last year was the first year it bore any nuts... a whopping 15 nuts!
This year was much better, probably about 125 nuts! I'm encouraged, and intend to plant more hazels next spring.
Hazelnuts (aka filberts) are used in confections to make pralines, and in some hazelnut paste products (such as Nutella). In the United States, hazelnut butter is being promoted as a more nutritious spread than its peanut butter counterpart, though it has a higher fat content.
Hazelnuts are very high in
energy and loaded with numerous health-benefiting nutrients that are
essential for
optimum health. 100 g of nuts provide 628 calories. The nuts are rich in
mono-unsaturated fatty acids like oleic
as well as essential fatty acid linoleic
acid that help lower LDL or bad
cholesterol and increase HDL or good cholesterol.
They are are an
excellent source of vitamin
E; containing about 15 g per 100 g (providing
100% of
RDA). Vitamin E is a powerful lipid soluble antioxidant,
required for maintaining the integrity of cell membrane of mucus
membranes and skin by protecting it from harmful oxygen free radicals.
The nuts are packed with many of the important B-complex group of vitamins such as riboflavin, niacin, thiamin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine (vitamin B-6), and folates. They are rich source of
minerals like manganese, potassium, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium,
zinc, and
selenium.
What's not to love?
Nice harvest. One of the hazel trees we planted this year produced a dozen nuts and that despite the drought.
ReplyDeleteYou can get more trees by layering the one that you have.
In simple layering of hazelnut, simply reversing the polarity of the stem is usually sufficient to stimulate rooting. In simple layering, shoots are placed in contact with the ground and secured there so that the shoot tip remains above ground. Commercially, one year-old shoots are layered just prior to bud break, as in hazelnut. By the following autumn, most shoots should be rooted. The suckers arising from the base of vigorous young trees that are four to eight years old, are layered in early spring. The basal portion of suckers are scarred or a hog-nose ring is applied encircling the stem of the young shoots. A 0.5 m tall tarpaper collar is placed at the base of the suckering tree. Sawdust is added to the brim of the tarpaper. Roots form on the suckers during the summer. The tarpaper and sawdust are removed in late August and the rooted layers can be removed from the tree. Sometimes less-well rooted suckers are placed in a nursery bed for about a year for further root development.
Regards,
Mike
Mike, you ALWAYS come through with good suggestions, very helpful to this old woman! Thanks.
DeleteI know I can replicate the hazel I have, but I thought a few different varieties might be both nice, and helpful overall.
http://www.nuttrees.net/hazel.html plus scion wood
ReplyDeleteand
http://www.burntridgenursery.com/products.asp?dept=54
and
http://www.onegreenworld.com//index.php?cPath=2_71
and
http://ediblelandscaping.com/products/buyPlants.php?func=showall
and
Badgersett
and
Oikos Tree Crops
and
Raintree Nursery (Search for filbert)
Anything that you get that is grafted, you should probably layer to get the cultivar on its own root.
Thanks!
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