A DANGEROUS TREE | Are Black Walnut Trees Harmful to Gardens and Grass? 

Great video! Here's my experience which is quite different from what all the 'experts' say. My garden is ringed by walnut trees. I grow tomatoes, potatoes, asparagus, etc. Four walnut trees, 40 to 50 years old, were planted in a row of lilacs. The lilacs started producing fewer flowers, so we trimmed back a lot of branches to get more sunlight to them. The lilacs are older than the walnuts. They now produce a gorgeous amount of flowers directly under the walnut trees. Tomatoes grow fantastic amounts of fruit. I routinely get so many that I can a year's worth of tomato sauce and tomato juice every year. A side benefit is the large population of squirrels. They are delicious and produce many pounds of meat every year. There are feral cats that also help control the population, but we seem to have worked out a deal where they take the old weak ones leaving the plump younger ones for us. As a side note, the walnut branches made awesome firewood for cooking with my Dutch ovens and the oldest, dead lilacs are excellent for the smoker.

Everything under and around my black walnut trees grow just fine

As a wood turner I'd take that tree off you if you lived near by..... I'd put an advert win the paper and see if any furniture designer wants the wood.... save you a lot of time cutting it down (mind you can't see any one remove the long roots though.... (and squirrels love the nuts).... good luck shifting it....

you have your garden too close to those trees clean all that trash around those trees so you can harvest the nuts they are valuable you can drill those walnut trees just like maple trees fr sap boil it down for syrup also the wood is big$$$ when cut down move your garden -----lol

Hickories, Pecans, English/Carpathian Walnuts, Butternut, and Black Walnuts all produce Juglone.

Your damn right about those trees. Have a few friends here who think they are wonderful. They destroy gardens and they wrecked my aunts in ground pool with their roots. Good info

I have this problem. My cucumbers are not producing with a black walnut tree is about 20 feet away.

Black walnut husk can be used holistically. Consult a holistic physician.

you can sell small black walnut trees that sprouted a year or so ago from a nut on ebay big market seedling trees

Is that Black and English walnuts, or just Black walnuts. We have 2 English Walnuts in our back yard. 🧐

people should not be so evil about the wonderful walnut tree

Hi, Benj! You taught me something I didn’t know about walnut trees.

I have a huge black walnut tree in my back yard. Whenever I remove weeds from somewhere on my property I always throw them under it in the hopes that they won't grow there. I'm not sure if it helps. I threw a lot of poke weeks on the pile, but I'd be surprised if they'd be affected by the juglone. But I might as well try.

From your own reference: Allelopathic toxicity can be entirely avoided by placing gardens far away from black walnuts ...or planting in lined raised beds that limit root contact. "

I have a at least 200 year old walnut tree about 4 1/2 ft wide 60ft tall and the squarls love the walnuts and the chickens like to take dirt baths next to the tree. Kinda cool

My walnut is huge and two of my beds are under it's canopy and another very near - my hubby had resisted my comments to fell -, when I realised it is very difficult to grow anything in one bed and the other at the side, in the third bed (the nightshade one) during the dry period the peppers were always wilting - my garden is an old woodland which had fruit trees at one time. The walnut produces a lot of nuts but the shells are weak as it is quite wet during the autumn when they drop. I think we will chop down half of the tree as it has two trunks and see what happens. Perhaps when we planed our garden we should have planted further out!! Oops. I wonder what to do with the wood it seems too precious to burn!

I have 2 Walnut trees near my garden and I worry it will effect my garden in a bad way

that black walnut will probably die looks like it is in a ditch they dont like wet feet will start to rot at the base

Even if it is dangerous, it's still native, and it's not going anywhere.

Thank you so much for this - allelopathy - now know what to google to see if the beech nut tree next to my garden is suppressing the garden growth . Will work more at amending soil this spring

Black Walnut trees are noxious. And so are some weeds.

All night shade plants are effected more then any thing.

Everything has its place

Will a black walnut kill an oak tree?

How deep should the raised beds be?

We bought a house with neglected walnut roots from the tree next door, they make incredibly long channels with thick roots and sprout babies up everywhere. Spent all day hacking and digging and got about 10 stumps out of the probably hundred or so

will apple, peach, and pear trees do okay with walnut trees around? they are close to the orchard i am planning, thank you

They're incredibly harmful to humans! The nuts fall and dent cars and human heads... you have to watch your footing or you'll roll your ankle. We call them the Devil's Tennis Balls 🤣 delicious nuts yes, but hazardous to my personal health!

Are apple trees and pear trees ok around your garden. About 25 feet away