Black Walnut Harvesting, cleaning, drying, curing, and cracking! 

Way too much banter! Scrubbing each shell is crazy. Remove green or yellow husks by placing them on the ground, and stepping on them and sliding your foot. Wear gloves and place the husked nuts into a mesh bag, perhaps a onion sack.tie the bags shut. Tie a long piece of rope to the bag. Take the bags of nuts to a stream or creek. place the bags in running water. Every once and a whie pick up the bag, circulate the nuts. This procedure is niw usec by me. Previously I placed nuts in a 5 gal pail, and ran the garden hose at low pressure till the rinse water in the pail cleared.

Ditch the wire brush and use a pressure washer .

Dear sir I did the same thing you are doing, then I though there has to be a quicker way. Then along comes this guy steps on them and in no time did hundreds. No washing the sun dries the goo part and as they dry it falls off and you have clean nuts. No washing

I fly with a medium hard rubber hammer. It goes super quick

So we use a pair of pliers and a hamer and a very strong brick! ( NOT YOUR KITCHEN COUNTER! YOU WILL DESTROY IT! TO SAY THE LEAST! 😉💝

I think the tree produce walnuts every other year. This is my first time n i only did 15 so far, i used a pairing knife. & new tooth prush.

In the eastern US these are great, when you get west were the grasslands start they still grow. However because of our lack of rainfall the nut meats are much smaller and the flavor more bitter. If you have a yard plant one and water it. The more you water it the better the nuts. I have one in back in lawn where I can water it on days you are allowed to water. One by street, sprinkers are not allowed, lots of people grow rocks. You can use water bags around trunk or sit and hold a hose. I try to water street once every 3 weeks. The ones in grass that i can water once a week are so much better,

My sons and I are in the process of cleaning our walnuts today. They are 14 and 11, and so excited to take part in this process. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for the info! I’m just starting out myself-we moves to the country, found two walnut trees on our property when we saw the nuts on the ground. My Grandfather had a walnut cracker, passed it on to my Uncle. He’s going to let me use it..very excited to learn how to do this.

Don’t make a lousy 20 minute video without solid information, technique and videography skills. Please.

After the initial cracking in your vice, use a pair of electricians' side cutters to cut away the shells to release and extract the meat. You'll find it much easier than trying to pick out the meats. Happy cracking.....I have 7822 currently seasoning from this year's harvest. I need to get crackin'. :)

My second year harvesting and processing by hand. Just processed yesterday and now drying them. Lots of work though happy at the end.

Black Walnuts are the original paintballs anything they hit is stained

I've had walnuts float after I take them out of the husk, but then after I clean them up a little more, they don't float anymore. I'm not sure what I should do. I went ahead and saved them but they're all mixed in with the ones that never floated

Thanks for posting - I just harvested two laundry baskets plus three large buckets from ONE tree in my yard - and I see there are more nuts waiting to fall! I'm going to start opening and cleaning this afternoon (after I go buy some heavy rubber gloves!).

I used an electric cement mixer to clean the hulls off

They are prominent in Indiana also.

Question: My Brother has one in his yard and we are thinking about trying to harvest them. The ones that have the husk on them some are not green and have turned black are the black ones still good to harvest?

thank you i have alot of these and i could not open them

What do you do with them

Why do you think that the pre school is watching this

When I open mine up after drying 1-4 weeks they’re always black, dried up and paper thin. What am I doing wrong? 😢

my friend placed his black walnuts in his gravel d rive way after a few days he collected the nuts then cracked with a hammer on his anvil in the shop

this crazy time consuming.