This year’s spring clean up mostly involves cutting down the unwanted hazelnut plants. Here I am cutting down about 102 inferior hazelnuts before they can pollinate the rest of the orchard. The picture here is from the rabbits pruning the higher quality plants. This is something I don’t really appreciate! Hazelnuts are monoecious wind pollinated […]
Growing hazelnuts from seed is fairly easy. The process involves stratifying (cold period) and germinating the seed. There is an easier way to grow hazelnuts from seed. Plant the nuts in garden rows in the fall. They will germinate the first week of June. They can be moved to a permanent location in the fall […]
The drone pictures of the hazelnut orchard are taken by Bryce Johnson The hazelnuts are located in 3 rows along the river by the spruce trees. We’ve had to fence off these due to beaver damage. If you look closely at one of the spruce trees it has almost no needles due to a needle […]
Kelsey Dunnell, who has been an important part of the hazelnut research team, has moved to Oregon to finish her PhD at Oregon State University. Good luck Kelsey, & you will be missed!! The picture on the left is Kelsey at NDSU research arboretum near Absaraka, with her hazelnuts research for NDSU. The picture […]
The hazelnut harvest started on August 11 this year. It is a week earlier than usual. As you can see in these pictures, each hazelnut bunch looks different because of the wide variation of plants we have. Notice how open the husk is on this plant. This plant tends to have mostly singles with just […]
Planting your hazelnuts too close to the river could result in some beaver damage as shown below. I (Dan) tried hand pollinating some of the flowers this year. First all of the catkins were removed from the branch, then a bag was placed over the flowers to keep it from getting pollinated by outside pollen. […]