A fair harvest of Hazel nuts.
A couple of green nuts from earlier this year in photos above.
We have six large bushes that we planted over 20 years ago. We harvest about 2 gallons of nuts a year. Not a large harvest but I think it may have something to do with how they are pruned. We have let me grow up about 10-12' tall, multi-stemmed. They make a nice form but I suspect that shorter bushes more agressively pruned with yield more nuts. I am not about to change their shape now but would like to plant more bushes and test my theory. In the last photo above the nut bushes are seen above the lawn chairs, the bushes on this end are Lilacs.
A couple of green nuts from earlier this year in photos above.
We have six large bushes that we planted over 20 years ago. We harvest about 2 gallons of nuts a year. Not a large harvest but I think it may have something to do with how they are pruned. We have let me grow up about 10-12' tall, multi-stemmed. They make a nice form but I suspect that shorter bushes more agressively pruned with yield more nuts. I am not about to change their shape now but would like to plant more bushes and test my theory. In the last photo above the nut bushes are seen above the lawn chairs, the bushes on this end are Lilacs.
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