Brief Guides to Growing Your Own Nuts
These quick guides are designed to introduce you to the main facts needed when nut growing. They also link through to other relevant pages on the site.
Growing nuts is not a short term proposition. Often it can take years between planting a tree and it becoming productive so you may wonder why you should grow your own nuts. Simply put, you may have to wait but they take very little work and once producing, will provide you with a crop for many more years to come.
Nut Growing
Growing Almonds - How to Grow Almonds
How to Grow Almonds - A Guide to Growing Almonds
Almond trees are In the same family as peaches, nectarines and plums , and the nuts grow as kernels within the fruit in the same way. Almonds can be grown from the nut (or seed) but it is more reliable...
Growing Chestnuts - How to Grow Sweet Chestnuts
How to Grow Sweet Chestnuts - A Guide to Growing Sweet Chestnuts
Sweet chestnuts can be grown from seed, but the resulting tree could take as long as 20 years before producing fruit! Much better to buy a grafted bare-rooted tree from a reliable supplier, ...
Growing Hazelnuts - How to Grow Hazelnuts
How to Grow Hazelnuts - A Guide to Growing Hazelnuts
Hazelnuts are easy to grow. They are often used as hedging and grown for their wood, as well as their delicious nuts. They are naturally vigorous, large multi-stemmed bushes, often coppiced for their...
Growing Walnuts - How to Grow Walnuts
How to Grow Walnuts - A Guide to Growing Walnuts
Walnuts will begin to produce fruit after about four years. To obtain a good crop, most varieties will need a pollinator of a different variety as the male and female flowers grow together on a single...