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Offline Smokey Hills Bandit

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Uploading the original pics.






3,000 hazelnuts


Handful

« Last Edit: January 01/30/20, 07:51:47 PM by Smokey Hills Bandit »

Offline ray634

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Are these special hazelnuts? Most people I know want to get rid of hazel brush, not plant more.

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« Last Edit: September 09/26/19, 08:30:34 PM by jlynch3 »

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I tried growing these....they never took.
Our soil is mostly sand and I don't think they like it.
I bought ours from the county 🌲 program.
Mama always said, If you ain't got noth'in nice to say, don't say noth'in at all!

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Very nice pictorial J3!  So those look just like the ones we buy to eat.  I didn't realize the wild ones would look so nice.  Have you ever tried to eat them?

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« Last Edit: September 09/26/19, 08:29:23 PM by jlynch3 »

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I planted a part of a SWCD bundle someone had left over a few years ago so I have 14 of them. Bunny and deer candy. Just curious what kind of insects you mentioned jlynch? The hazelnut bushes grew wild in the fencelines at home and occasionally we'd get to sample them before the critters ate all the nuts. Smaller than the ones we'd eat at Christmas time but tasted the same.
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Very nice pictorial J3!  So those look just like the ones we buy to eat.  I didn't realize the wild ones would look so nice.  Have you ever tried to eat them?

I have eaten them.  Taste the same as bought ones.  Was a guy down around lanesboro that was breeding them to make a commercially viable crop hardy in mn.

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Years ago we picked sacks full every fall.  We ate them all year.  Cracked them open on the sidewalk or steps with a hammer.  I have quite a few patches on my land.  The bears love them. 
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I like hazelnuts too. Used to eat a lot of them. Broken into pieces, good mixed in cookies and as a topping for cakes.

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Offline Reinhard

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I could not see any pics of the hazelnuts??  I have only seen them  north of Duluth in the woods where we hunt.  good luck.

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I think he deleted all his stuff, maybe somebody pissed him off.
Mama always said, If you ain't got noth'in nice to say, don't say noth'in at all!

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I think he deleted all his stuff, maybe somebody pissed him off.
:scratch: :scratch: :doah: :doah: hope not........he posted some good stuff!!!!!!!
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hope not........... 
a bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at work!!

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I'm still here.. Going to change my user name. Never wanted to have my real name as my User Name, but I had trouble when originally signing up.
 

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Go with Glenn #2. Then ya can say anything ya want.      :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

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Go with Glenn #2. Then ya can say anything ya want.      :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
:confused: :crazy: :crazy: :doah: putz!!!!!!!! :tut: :tut: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Well!!!!!!!!  :shocked:   :mooning:

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Ok, I've been interested in wild hazelnuts.  Didn't see the pics of course and that would have been nice.  Wanted to see the size of them if they were the same size as the one's you buy in the store.  The one's I've seen up north while hunting were still green on the outside.  I opened some up once and it was obvious that they were not ripe yet and they were small.  So maybe it was early but it was late fall.  Maybe they don't get ripe up there?  So the wild one's you guys see down more south are the same size as store bought?  good luck.

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Here, RH....



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that's interesting....
a bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at work!!

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My girlfriend and I used to take them out of our white russians, and when we had a line of them across the table, it was time to go home.... :doofus:

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Thanks Reb!!  That was awesome.  So they are smaller than store bought.  That's ok though.  I'll just leave them alone so the animals up there can enjoy them and I'll buy the store bought.  good luck.

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White russians, Reiny?  :doofus:    :rotflmao:

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There was a guy in se MN who was breeding hazelnuts as a possible cash crop.   I will see if I can find info and post a link.

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My girlfriend and I used to take them out of our white russians, and when we had a line of them across the table, it was time to go home.... :doofus:

toast city!!~!!   :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
a bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at work!!

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I have an abundant supply of hazelnuts on my land.  Wildlife love them.  Bear, grouse, deer, turkey all eat the nuts.  It's a lot easier to buy the filberts in the store than harvest the hazelnuts from the bushes in Minnesota.  We did when I was young.  Fight the bugs and pick sacks full.  Spread them out in the corncrib until dry.  Walk on them shuffling feet until all husks are off.  Separate nuts from chaff.  Store in glass jars in the attic.  Crack them with hammer on sidewalk. 
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Like the acorns, critters eat them to put body fat on for the tough winter ahead. :happy1:
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