Black Walnut Seedling

Black Walnut SeedlingBlack walnut trees will produce huge yearly crops of tasty edible nuts that are not the easiest to shell, but well worth the effort. The flavour is sweet, earthy and slightly bitter from the tannins. The black walnut is touted as a sound investment with the potential to generate hefty payouts for those willing to wait the 30+ years it takes to reach maturity. A single well formed specimen can yield $20,000 of timber products since the black walnut is

Note that many oaks will readily hybridize

Spacing: 80’

Soil: Can tolerate dry conditions and pH of 5

Does it make sense to plant a tree that’s susceptible to blight

Since the 1990s there has been a concerted effort underway to save the butternut from a devastating fungal infection called butternut canker

A much-touted “superfruit

These black walnuts are selected from trees thriving in a Manitoba Zone 3 prairie climate

It’s extracted and boiled down just like maple syrup and has a sweet

Also known as a “white walnut

Latin: Quercus bicolor

It has a very pretty

compact (15’ height on average) appearance with feathery foliage and lots of flowers in the spring that become seed pods containing what look like tiny chestnuts