The Great Walnut Experiment

Posted by Cindy on November 7, 2008

Remember the black walnuts we collected to harvest and freeze?  Yeah, well, let’s just say it turned out a bit like the applesauce experience.  What you see below is less that one cup of walnuts, which took at least 45 minutes of my hard labor.

I got lots of great advice on doing applesauce the easier way next year.  Any advice for an easier way to harvest these little boogers?  (I used a hammer on a large rock to crack the shell – which flew everywhere.  Then used a nut tool to painstakingly get the meat out.)

At this point, I told my son to scatter the rest of the walnuts out for the squirrels!  My husband told him to bag them up just in case I change my mind.  Me, change my mind?