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Thank you for the replies! Those are some great resources! Anyone else please feel free to share their knowledge on where you buy your plants and why.

I thought I would start a thread that everyone can say where they purchase their plants, trees, seeds, starts, etc and why they buy them there. For many gardeners starting out, this can be an overwhelming endeavor, and to know a great place to get good plants, and why can take the edge off of...

Thanks for the replies :D Rosalind, do you know if it matters how old the tree is before the wood is ready for furniture making? Or does it matter? I will "harvest" the nuts today and set them out to cure and keep them separate.

Last night we had a Thunderstorm with close to 70 mph winds, and it downed almost half of one of our black walnut trees. My question is are they harvestable now, or are they a loss? Can anyone tell me about the wood? I don't want to just burn it, b/c I have heard that the wood is very expensive.

yeah that part is crappy. We had one at a house that we were renting and it was hard keeping it from getting tracked in. We decided to put laminate flooring in the living room of our new house, and we have linoleum at our back door, so hopefully we will be able to keep the yuck down to a...

Thanks everyone :) Oh I hope it's a female!! I found a couple more on the property. One is a little bit bigger than this one, and it's growing from a tree trunk out in the back part of our yard.

Hey Shell! I'm new to gardening too, but I'll help if I can. Glad to have you! Have you seen the other sister websites? sufficientself.com, and backyardcows.com?

I forgot to subscribe to this thread, and....I forgot the MissPrissy had a blog about black walnuts....sheesh what is wrong with my memory? LOL I have a mulberry that is growing under my black walnut, and various weeds :coolsun

I have the same question...When do you harvest? What do they look like when it's time for harvest? And how? Do you shake them out? Let them fall from the tree then gather them?

glad to have you back! :) I don't know what you can make with them, or when you harvest them. I'm wanting to say that here it is mid to late summer. I bet though you could post in the recipes section on the BYC and ask someone, or better yet to attract traffic to easy gardening, you could...

ha ha ha YAY!!! I'm not the only one!! I love me some cake!!!

yep, she fried it. I think she also battered it in cornbread or cornmeal. lol I didn't know until my adult life that there are other ways to make it let alone other ways to fry it :P Now, ask me about Pennsylvania Dutch dishes. I know a lot more about those :weee...

hmm maybe that's what they were getting at. I wish I could remember who had said it or what thread it was on, then I could go back and read it. ETA I probably misunderstood them.

lol Well yes....Mimosa trees are good looking and grow really fast, but in some areas they are invasive, so you might not want to introduce them to your area, if they're not already there. Not really sure how that works. They are not native to the US though, they are from Japan I believe, but...

I have a confession to make: drumroll please..... I am an okie, have been all my life, and I HATE okra! I know, I know. Get the stake and kindling ready now. My mom cooked it growing up, and I always hated it. I haven't tried it in years. who knows maybe I would like it now. That's what...

AWW! :weight It's hangin in there!

We inherited it from the previous owners. I think they mowed around it and voila there is a mulberry tree! I think we also inherited a peach tree, but that too is a very young tree and I'm not a 100% sure on that one either. All of our trees were larger and had fruit on them when I was a kid, so...

hmmm maybe a close relative? I looked up the name and it showed examples with similar leaves but more narrow...hmmm Is hackberry edible? It sure doesn't sound like it :gig

YAY that it's growing!! How big is it?

:yuckyuck It looks like a crab apple tree to me too. It looks like the ones that I used to play around at the dr's office when I was a kid. They had three of them. It looks like they might be getting some worms or something eating at them. I remember almost all of his apples had worm holes in...