English or Persian walnuts are a lovely tree for fruit or shade and the nuts are delicious. Plant your walnut in full sun and space them about thirty feet apart. A full-grown tree that can reach forty to sixty feet tall. By the way, the California black walnut is often used as root stock for most of the bare root walnut varieties.

Walnuts are native to the Balkans and they’re hardy to USDA zone four. These beautiful trees need well drained soil at least five feet deep. To insure good cross-pollination and fruit set it’s recommended to plant two different varieties.

Walnuts bear male and female flowers on the same tree. But especially when the trees are young they do not tend to shed pollen at the time when their female flowers are receptive.

Think about what’s growing around your walnut trees. Don’t plant them next to a vegetable garden. There’s toxins in the roots of walnuts that can leach out and kill some susceptible plants.

Walnuts like ample water, water them infrequently, but deeply. Use mini sprinklers that allow you to get three inches of water about every two to three weeks to irrigate your trees. When placing your irrigation be careful not to get any water on the trunk of the tree as that can cause some diseases.

Harvest the walnuts when the hulls crack and then dry them out but not in the sun, either in onion sacks or on a tray.

Prune your walnut trees in the late fall or early winter. Pruning your trees later on in the spring will cause them to bleed a lot of sap. Train your walnuts to a central leader or modified central leader training system.

Mature walnut trees only need light pruning and that’s just to thin out the canopy a bit. Cut the branch all the way back to the collar, but don’t cut into the collar. Avoid heading cuts were you just cut the branch to the beginning of a bud.

If you are taking out or shortening a branch use a thinning cut, where you cut back to a branch. Leave short branches in the middle of the tree because those will produce flowers and pollen.

In addition to cutting low hooking branches, cut off any dead branches. If you need to take out a large branch because of damage, it’s important to preserve the branch collar. The branch collar is where the tree will grow wound wood and heal the cut. Ask your local nursery if you are unsure about where the branch collar is.

Avoid cutting branches that are more than four inches in diameter. Two inches is normally the maximum size of branch you want to prune. Cutting a branch larger than four inches in diameter will increase your chances of decay.

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