MIgardener: This Hassle Free Plant Grows Hundreds of Pounds With ZERO Effort!
I can’t get over how productive this plant is and how much food it grows. I don’t have to do anything to grow this plant and it produces every single year!
Farm I grew up on had/still has a bunch of these trees. Best pork I’ve ever eaten was raised in a fence with a big bunch of hickory trees dropping nuts to the pigs 🐖.
Spare some nuts and get some squirrels. Smoke them with nut husks.
I have them and black walnut and butternuts. All good but sometimes the opening them up to get a tiny morsel just dont seem worth it. I mean I do it sometimes but could never do enough for a meal or even a snack really. Just a " in the candy world", fun size piece. They are good though!
I have a huge shagbark hickory tree about 8' from the back corner of my house that I bought 3 yrs ago and HATE it! It's massive and by the time the falling nuts hit my roof, sounds like someone is hammering in my attic! Windy days are the worst. It's between my house and my fairly close neighbor and having it safely cut down would be next to impossible getting sections over our houses without damaging our roofs since our very narrow side yards don't have room to drop any limbs. If I'd know what it does, wouldn't have bought the house.
Hickory bark soda is amazing! If you have access to a hickory tree, you have to try it. You literally use the bark that has fallen off the tree. Please do not pull the bark from the tree.
I have lots of hickory and black walnut trees in my woods and I bought the grandpa's goodie getter, it's a nut cracker. Well built and well worth the cost. Nothing better than banana bread with either of those nuts in it.
I wish you had videos about container trees or trees for small spaces as not all of us are blessed with spaces large enough for a beautiful tree like yours.😢
I have a grove of Hickory trees (8) but not the shag bark. They are like Disney world for the squirrels! And tons of birds too. Very entertaining but I would never eat the nuts. They do fall on my lawn, and the squirrels scamper all over testing each one. So funny to watch them bury them.
You are right, nuts are an easy, palatable and valuable nutrient resource. I've got butternut, black walnut and beech nuts on the farm, and some struggling chestnuts. Unfortunately I'm 70 and a nut tree seedling planted now would probably not bear in my lifetime!
I grew up with hickory trees, and I agree, they are absolutely delicious! I never waited for the husks to turn brown. It’s fairly easy to remove the husks with your hands. As a child, I was fascinated by the four-part husk, that unlike black walnut, comes off mess free. I usually harvested enough nuts every year to last through the winter, and they were a welcome addition to cookies we baked for Christmas. I planted two hickory trees about twenty years ago, but they still haven’t produced yet. They grow very slowly. The black walnuts I planted at the same time have been producing nuts for several years. I’m also still waiting for hazelnuts from that same planting. It never occurred to me to fertilize any of my nut trees, since they grow wild around here. What type of fertilizer do nut trees need? Should I fertilize before the trees go dormant, or wait? My soil is exactly neutral Ph, but would adding a small amount of soil acidifier help the trees to mature faster?
My grandmother always collected hickory nuts and used them for whatever she needed nuts for cooking baking I swear they are they absolute best tasting nuts along with black walnuts. When I lived in the South and first tasted local thin-shelled pecans they reminded me of hickory nuts
Dad used to collet black walnuts and they were 'something to do' in winter and mom appreciated using them for christmas cookies. Unfortunately for me, I'm allergic to them. (Only nut i reacted to on the bed of nails test)
I have regular Hickory trees on my property and they are raining down nuts. Look similar to yours but smaller. Do you know if they might be edible? Many older people around here (northeast) call them pig nuts.
I don't usually comment on hair, but I like your new doo Luke. It never occurred to me before that I've never tried 'Hickory' nuts, I must have been confusing them with Hazelnuts which I've eaten. Wish I had the space to grow a huge tree like that!
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Farm I grew up on had/still has a bunch of these trees. Best pork I’ve ever eaten was raised in a fence with a big bunch of hickory trees dropping nuts to the pigs 🐖.
What's the plant?
🎉🎉🎉
I love the bark on that hickory tree.
Cool
The US will celebrate its 250th next year. So your hickory tree comes up short about 50-100yrs. 😊 Great video!
we need to make housing affordable in america because I want to plant crop trees so badly
Spare some nuts and get some squirrels. Smoke them with nut husks.
I have them and black walnut and butternuts. All good but sometimes the opening them up to get a tiny morsel just dont seem worth it. I mean I do it sometimes but could never do enough for a meal or even a snack really. Just a " in the candy world", fun size piece. They are good though!
The big question is how do you manage to get the meats out of the shells, because I can’t.
I have a huge shagbark hickory tree about 8' from the back corner of my house that I bought 3 yrs ago and HATE it! It's massive and by the time the falling nuts hit my roof, sounds like someone is hammering in my attic! Windy days are the worst. It's between my house and my fairly close neighbor and having it safely cut down would be next to impossible getting sections over our houses without damaging our roofs since our very narrow side yards don't have room to drop any limbs. If I'd know what it does, wouldn't have bought the house.
♥️👍 they are really tasty!
We have a shagbark hickory that is at least 100 years on our family farm. We will be collecting nuts the second week of October.
Hickory bark soda is amazing! If you have access to a hickory tree, you have to try it. You literally use the bark that has fallen off the tree. Please do not pull the bark from the tree.
I have lots of hickory and black walnut trees in my woods and I bought the grandpa's goodie getter, it's a nut cracker. Well built and well worth the cost. Nothing better than banana bread with either of those nuts in it.
We have one, but it is not a shag bark. I've read that the others aren't as good to eat, is that true?
Squirrels & burrowing worms make these tough to harvest though
I wish you had videos about container trees or trees for small spaces as not all of us are blessed with spaces large enough for a beautiful tree like yours.😢
I have a grove of Hickory trees (8) but not the shag bark. They are like Disney world for the squirrels! And tons of birds too. Very entertaining but I would never eat the nuts. They do fall on my lawn, and the squirrels scamper all over testing each one. So funny to watch them bury them.
Lol, i just planted 2 in my yard!❤❤❤
When I was a kid, we would crack them out on the picnic table to make Divinity. Yum!!
You are right, nuts are an easy, palatable and valuable nutrient resource. I've got butternut, black walnut and beech nuts on the farm, and some struggling chestnuts. Unfortunately I'm 70 and a nut tree seedling planted now would probably not bear in my lifetime!
I grew up with hickory trees, and I agree, they are absolutely delicious! I never waited for the husks to turn brown. It’s fairly easy to remove the husks with your hands. As a child, I was fascinated by the four-part husk, that unlike black walnut, comes off mess free. I usually harvested enough nuts every year to last through the winter, and they were a welcome addition to cookies we baked for Christmas.
I planted two hickory trees about twenty years ago, but they still haven’t produced yet. They grow very slowly. The black walnuts I planted at the same time have been producing nuts for several years. I’m also still waiting for hazelnuts from that same planting. It never occurred to me to fertilize any of my nut trees, since they grow wild around here. What type of fertilizer do nut trees need? Should I fertilize before the trees go dormant, or wait? My soil is exactly neutral Ph, but would adding a small amount of soil acidifier help the trees to mature faster?
My grandmother always collected hickory nuts and used them for whatever she needed nuts for cooking baking I swear they are they absolute best tasting nuts along with black walnuts. When I lived in the South and first tasted local thin-shelled pecans they reminded me of hickory nuts
Dad used to collet black walnuts and they were 'something to do' in winter and mom appreciated using them for christmas cookies. Unfortunately for me, I'm allergic to them. (Only nut i reacted to on the bed of nails test)
I have regular Hickory trees on my property and they are raining down nuts. Look similar to yours but smaller. Do you know if they might be edible? Many older people around here (northeast) call them pig nuts.
I certainly hope you are planting some of those seeds to ensure future decades of harvests.
I love Hickory nuts but they are a beast to crack open.
I don't usually comment on hair, but I like your new doo Luke. It never occurred to me before that I've never tried 'Hickory' nuts, I must have been confusing them with Hazelnuts which I've eaten. Wish I had the space to grow a huge tree like that!