Cobnuts? wet walnuts?

Gee, put me on your "free" tree list will you, I can't find anyone here in Oregon that sells them. Walnut trees are lovely to have also, but filbert oe "cobnut" trees as you people call them, take up less room in an yard, are an smaller tree, I have an book around here somewhere of an craft in taking the walnut shells and making little ornament people out of them, animals. Two halves of walnuts one glued on top of the other makes the body and the face is painted or etched on  the first halve sheel or whole.. and  felt ears attached, and an small red plaid apron glued around the bottom and you have MIss Mousey..use pipe cleaners for the arms in brown(o rpaint her with gray paint)....you can add an small beaded necklace in red around her neck also (maybe tiny red jingle bells) ..have her hands holding out an small match box bottom ..cut down to look like an cookie sheet and put one small cookie made of play dough in it. Write on the side of the cookie tray in red..Merry Christmas..with maybe some wee green holly leaves on each side...with red dots for  berries. I had around here an whole book of these animals, pigs,(spray wiht pink paint) ducks, (spray with yellow paint) squirrels, teddy bears sitting down, etc.You can also spray the walnuts with "Gold" non-toxic paint, and glue them onto fancy gold ribbon to string around the tree and afterwards, crack the nuts open for eating the walnuts after Christmas, and burning the walnut shells in the fireplace...much like woodstove "pellets" that they sell these days. I have never heard of vinegar walnuts myself...but I suppose it could be done. I chopped some walnuts up and added  them my dried golden grapes for raisins and various colored M and M candies, and an few dried cranberries not to long ago. They are selling something simliar now for $5.00 an package at the grocery store.as trail mix. We use to have orchards of both, now given out to wineries, and I miss the orchards of "nut" trees..returning to an 50/50 would proably help both industires better. The wineries came up here with the Californians about 20 years ago.

I'll have to ask my hubby when he started this site and why he never told me about pickled walnuts.  lol

Shirley - I would happily put on my list for a free tree but since I was not allowed to bring ANY produce to the States in June, the 'authorities' would have a fit if I sent you a tree in the post.  what a pity, because we found another one yesterday - how we missed it I will never know - its about 2 ft high in the middle of the raspberry canes. it will have to come out as they get to big and one producing nuts like there is no tomorrow is almost too much!

If you can lay your hards on an un-kiln-dried few nuts just put them in a moist secluded place, about quarter inch deep and hope for the best.

So 3 now, if the larger ones survives digging up.  they have quite a hefty tap root, so much digging required.

Ollytop (email me for further info if you like) 

Hi Barbara:  I think about a dozen and a half.  You'll most definitely want to double (or even triple) the recipe.