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Just looking to add a Medlar and a Walnut to my collection.

Anyone growing nuts, how you getting on

Thanks D

I have a Nottingham medlar, very pretty small tree that is covered with white flowers followed by the fruits later. I also have a corkscrew hazel, but squirrels raid it every year without fail so I never get any nuts off it..... >:(

We have a cobnut , squirrels get lots of the nuts but we get many more trees  as they forget where they have buried them  ;D

Maybe this does not count, but I have collected 2 kilos of sweet chestnuts from a local avenue this afternoon. The most beautiful nuts, smallish but glossy and plump, and the kilo or so I collected last week are boiled, peeled and packed away in the freezer.

Cannot believe the dusty, shrivelled Chinese chestnuts on sale in local supermarket at c£10 a kilo.

Quote from: Deb P on October 28, 2011, 22:49:34
I have a Nottingham medlar, very pretty small tree that is covered with white flowers followed by the fruits later. I also have a corkscrew hazel, but squirrels raid it every year without fail so I never get any nuts off it..... >:(

Hiya, it was the Nottingham Medlar that caught my eye, apparently tastier with smaller fruit.
Can i ask how you use yours and are theY ON THE Squirells diet sheet? I have a fruit cage with room for a couple of Nuts but wanted the Medlar out of the net.

I don't use them for anything, they taste like rotten caramels to me once bletted, so they go on the compost heap I'm afraid. The squirrels don't touch them at all!

I think medlars taste as 'date without the sugar'.
It's not bad..but I have tasted better.. :-\

try croing the nuts they only take a few seconds,delicious!