Nuts
These seven are the tastiest nuts that can be grown in the Northeast shown with years to harvest after planting a tree or bush:
Butternuts, 2-3
Chinese chestnuts, 3-5 years
Hazelnuts (also know as filberts), 6-8 years
Heartnuts, 3-6 years
Hickory Nuts, 8-10 years
Northern Pecans , 4-8 years
Walnuts, 4-7 years
All have husks around them when they are growing on bushes or trees.
We planted Chines Chestnuts, Hazelnuts, and Northern Pecan.
Both were planted in the ground in 2010. In 2020 the chestnut trees are 30' high and the hazelnut grew to 12 feet before they were removed in 2017 - both produce an abundance of nuts. The Northern Pecan grows slowly - in 2020, it is about 12' high and spindly producing no nuts as yet.
The biggest problem is squirrels getting all or most of your harvest. We were lucky one year by picking these before the squirrels got them. In other years the squirrels got to them first.
I removed the hazelnuts bushes to make more room for more grapes. It was too time consuming to keep the hazelnuts bushes trimmed to 8' high and clean up all the leaves in the Fall, especially when the squirrels got most of the hazelnuts. They would grow 6' to 8' in height every year and that was a lot of hand pruning. However, they were beautiful, healthy bushes.
When we can beat the squirrels to the Chinese Chestnuts, the chestnuts are delicious.
Butternuts, 2-3
Chinese chestnuts, 3-5 years
Hazelnuts (also know as filberts), 6-8 years
Heartnuts, 3-6 years
Hickory Nuts, 8-10 years
Northern Pecans , 4-8 years
Walnuts, 4-7 years
All have husks around them when they are growing on bushes or trees.
We planted Chines Chestnuts, Hazelnuts, and Northern Pecan.
Both were planted in the ground in 2010. In 2020 the chestnut trees are 30' high and the hazelnut grew to 12 feet before they were removed in 2017 - both produce an abundance of nuts. The Northern Pecan grows slowly - in 2020, it is about 12' high and spindly producing no nuts as yet.
The biggest problem is squirrels getting all or most of your harvest. We were lucky one year by picking these before the squirrels got them. In other years the squirrels got to them first.
I removed the hazelnuts bushes to make more room for more grapes. It was too time consuming to keep the hazelnuts bushes trimmed to 8' high and clean up all the leaves in the Fall, especially when the squirrels got most of the hazelnuts. They would grow 6' to 8' in height every year and that was a lot of hand pruning. However, they were beautiful, healthy bushes.
When we can beat the squirrels to the Chinese Chestnuts, the chestnuts are delicious.
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In the two red circles are two of the Chinese Chestnut Trees planted in 2010.
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In the red circle in the background are the 30' high Chinese Chestnut trees in 2017.
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In the red circle is one of the hazelnut bushes planted in 2010.
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These are the dozen hazelnut bushes in 2014 the first year they produced nuts. They are abut 9' high at this point.
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This is an enlarged photo of the Hazelnut (also called Filbert) inside its shell.
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This was the harvest of hazelnuts from one of the hazelnut bushes in 2014. The nut in its shell is enclosed in each husk. The husk can easily be removed to free the shell.
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