I biffed a walnut off the veranda and into the shrubbery. A tree grew from that nut and grew fast. In what seemed like no time at all, the tree began to bear nuts. This cluster represent the volunteer walnut's first crop. They are huge! Many widely-held beliefs were eroded by the appearance of these nuts. Widely-held beliefs do that, quite regularly,erode that is, in my experience.
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We have a similar tree at a family bach in the Bay of Plenty that has been in the family since the 1950's (maybe even earlier). We played in it for hours as children.
Despite being savagely pruned back to a stump (at least three times I can recall) it is still a magnificent producer of walnuts. They grow incredibly quickly. With their English/Persian heritage I would imagine the Southland climate suits them just fine.
Your are fortunate in that, para. I've been told that nothing likes to grow nearby to a walnut, but haven't found that to be true. perhaps when it's really big...
I'm looking forward to trying these nuts. Perhaps I'll try growing some of them as this particular tree seems better than others I've bought and grown.
There may be something in the 'nothing growing next to a walnut'. There's a scraggly lemon tree next to our Walnut, but it still delivers lemons.
However just to contradict that there is a feijoa hedge not far from the walnut (the walnut and the feijoa form the road frontage) that has been topped more often, and as brutally, as the Walnut but it keeps growing like a triffid and delivering great feijoas.
Mmmmm...triffid
Giant Hogweed is triffid-like and delivers a sting. Can't walk though.
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