pookie
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walnuts-are they useless?If I forget to pick walnuts in time, then forget to stick a pin in them to see if the shell is forming (which it has) and pick them anyway, are they useless? 
Or am I? 
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Chez
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You are just a very busy person who has a lot to get through before you get to a Walnut Place 
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pookie
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Why thank you for the ego-massage Chez 
Any suggestions re the 'shell-formed, but plucked from their tree-mother before they've matured' nuts though? 
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thos
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We always pick ours off the ground, on the basis that it's a rather large tree, and then wait for the green to rot away.
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sally_in_wales
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I have no idea if the insides are still useable, but the outsides will make a good very strong brown dye
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mochyn
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| sally_in_wales wrote: | | I have no idea if the insides are still useable, but the outsides will make a good very strong brown dye |
Ooh yeah: see numerous fairy stories where people dye themselves brown with them: probably related to the kings/pigs thing.
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Chez
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| mochyn wrote: | | probably related to the kings/pigs thing. |
You're going to have to explain that. Did pigs dye themselves with walnuts, then?
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mochyn
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| Chez wrote: | | mochyn wrote: | | probably related to the kings/pigs thing. |
You're going to have to explain that. Did pigs dye themselves with walnuts, then? |
don't be silly. I thought we'd decided earlier in the week that all kings have pigs?
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Chez
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I thought we'd agreed that all pigs have kings? I'm sorry - I'm not very on the ball, today 
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thos
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| mochyn wrote: | | sally_in_wales wrote: | | I have no idea if the insides are still useable, but the outsides will make a good very strong brown dye |
Ooh yeah: see numerous fairy stories where people dye themselves brown with them: probably related to the kings/pigs thing. |
I can confirm the dyeing oneself brown thing. It is so easy to get the dye onto hands and clothes and very hard to avoid.
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Tay
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| pookie wrote: | | Any suggestions re the 'shell-formed, but plucked from their tree-mother before they've matured' nuts though? |
I've no idea at all what you could do with them if you've already picked them. I'd think that composting them is all that they'd be good for at this stage of maturity.
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mochyn
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| Tay wrote: | | pookie wrote: | | Any suggestions re the 'shell-formed, but plucked from their tree-mother before they've matured' nuts though? |
I've no idea at all what you could do with them if you've already picked them. I'd think that composting them is all that they'd be good for at this stage of maturity. |
Tay! What are you doing here? You're supposed to be busy 
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Tay
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Supposed to be. Pi, it would seem does not want to come out just yet, despite our best provocation. I think the little one has decided to make me suffer for longer, and intends to emerge on my birthday next week.
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Frewen
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I was only wondering about you (and Toggle) the this morning 
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Tay
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I take it that nobody has heard anything from Toggle yet?
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pookie
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can pigs eat them?
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Cathryn
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Save me some pookie will you please if you decide they are only worth chucking. I would like some brown dye.
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pookie
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Hey, if you can use them then fab! anyone else?
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tahir
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So have you picked them all?
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pookie
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all from the lower branches that we could reach.
We tend to leave the rest to drop off naturally in Autumn. So there will be a few.
Mochyn will your pigs eat them?
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mochyn
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Well, they certainly clean up the hazels pdq so I'll give them a go on walnuts...
Phoned Val P, by the way.
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pookie
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| mochyn wrote: | Well, they certainly clean up the hazels pdq so I'll give them a go on walnuts...
Phoned Val P, by the way. |
thanks dear, will bring them this aft
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