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Now we know who the hoodlum is!

I have made a stain out of the hulls after they are removed from the nut and dried.

I use the broken pieces of the hull, put them in a plastic gallon jug, and pour house hold ammonia in.

I let it set 6 months or so. When it is ready it will have a walnut smell.

Just like pecans, I wait until the husks either dry up or fall off.
As a kid, we drove by a huge black walnut tree on the way to our hunting camp. At least once every season, grampa and me (?) took grandma "hunting".
One of the concessions was that we stop at the walnut tree and crack walnuts until grandma got a cup full of nut meats.
We would be rewarded with a batch of black walnut cookies!
GOOD STUFF, MAYNARD!!!!

Dad told me that they would take a burlap bag half full of walnuts, beat it until the husks were juicy then toss it in a small creek. Down stream, you could pick up fish easily.
Never thought to ask him if the fish tasted like walnut husks! LOL!

P.S. - Braum's sells "black walnut ice cream" by the dip!
Braum's is the TX/OK version of Baskin-Robbins.

Would love to know how to shell black walnuts without having to take a hammer them. Any ideas?

Best thing about black walnut tree's is the wood. Some beautiful veneer comes from the black walnut tree!

Ah, ball bearings.

My brother has a number of pretty good black walnut trees he started from nuts about thirty years ago.

A kid I knew was pelting cars one Halloween night with walnuts and put a huge hole in the fender of a guys car. The guy had just had his fender bondoed and he was furious

Wow

I picked up a couple of 5-gallon buckets of them when I was helping with harvest. I plan to dump them along the edge of the wood lot where I hunt fox squirrels. I also picked up a lot of waste corn that I'll leave in the same place, like a food pantry for squirrels.

I collected about 60 more today.

I grew up in NW Pennsylvania, and we had 10 black walnut trees on 5 acres.

They were good for throwing at each other, and nothing else more.

We had tons of deer around the property, and never saw a deer even think about eating one. I can’t imagine how. Deer would eat the apples, acorns, vegetables, and hostas.

Red squirrels would store them by the thousands in the barns and house. The fox squirrels would mainly eat from the hickory nut tree.

I have (had?) five black walnut trees I started from the nut.
This last little drought that hit last summer dinged the two smaller ones.
I've also got 2 pecan trees and 3 burr oak trees that were started from the nut.
Hopefully, soon, I can get rid of the 2 big "Western Soapberry" (China berry) trees that have been here since 1904.

Several trapped behind the rock dam today.

We have hundreds of mature black walnut trees on the place.

Let the school bus run them over if you want them huller. Everyone knows that. Duh

My grandfathers farm in Iowa was covered up with black walnut trees. To this day we go up and get several buckets a year for baked goods my mom and wife make. I personally can eat them by the handful, but I know some people despise them.

I love them! How the hell do you crack them?!

There is no special secret I know of. Once hulled and dried for a while I put them on a brick and give them a snack with a hammer. There is no easy way to get the meat out. Punishment when I was a kid was that we had to pick 1 cup of walnuts. I kept my mom well supplied and most likely that how I came to like them.

Use a horseshoe nail to dig the meat out. After you let the school bus run them over

Well done. Lovely Savage!

We have them all over here. I think they taste really good but they are difficult to open and get the meat out. We have a couple of buying stations. A truck bed full will bring less than 100 dollars. Handling them without gloves stains your hands brown. Fox Squirrels like them. Never seen a deer try to eat one.