Our first year here in my new home I have been observing the trees and bushes around me. And around late summer to autumn I started to see fruits and nuts forming on some of the surrounding trees. I found a pignut hickory, black cherry tree, asparagus, lowbush blueberries, raspberries and multiple chestnut trees, my foreman found a persimmon tree and many blueberry bushes as well. I am sure there are even more out there waiting for us to find them. Bearing tasty fruit and nuts.
As I walk through my property I catalog my findings and mark them with a tree safe tape. My plan is to return during the winter and cut away others trees around it to give them more light and spacing to grow bigger.
Nut trees:
Pignut Hickory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carya_glabra
Finding this tree so close to home was quite nice find. It has to be over 50-75' tall and looks to produce these nuts in abundance. Online it says they taste bitter, though the ones we have tried did not have that flavor. Though none the less I am pretty sure these are the Pignut variety as the smell of the skin is strong on them, unlike shagbark from what I have read.
The leaves along with the nuts that form is what helped me identify that it was a Hickory tree, but to figure out if its Pignut or Shagbark I scratched at the nuts flesh. The smell that came off of it was a strong fragrance making me think its Pignut.
Taking some of them back inside we cracked them open, just about every time the shell went flying everywhere lol... from what I have seen I may need a vice like tool that slowly cracks them. We got one or two open with a little bit of nut meat and it was quite tasty.. no bitterness detected.
These nuts were easy to spot at the time due to their spiny shell, but at this point they have all dropped. I marked the trees using some tape and will come back next year and hopefully get some.
I think I found a few of them, though not all were bearing fruit.
Marked them just in case so I can check back next year.
Fruit trees:
I was not the first one to spot this tree, my foreman did. But I found it later on and then pointed it out to him. He was like "I know" so now we both know. He said the deer like to eat these and he does too. So we shall see who gets the first ripe fruit... the deer or my foreman.
Common persimmon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros_virginiana
These fruits take awhile to mature, we caught them early.
A few weeks later, they are ripening up.
The tree is filled with them!
Soon it will be time to try them.
Honestly I have not had wild persimmons, curious their flavor.
Seems like the tree needs a little care, the leaves do not look so happy. But maybe this is what it does when winter comes around.. Not sure.
This tree is quite old, but I can see cherries up in the trees during its season. I have found many other of these trees, smaller ones around the property. Marking them and checking back next year to see if they produce.
Wild black cherry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_serotina
Not sure how I can get to the cherries up in this old tree. They are 20-30 feet up.
This tree has seen better days, I gave it a good limb trimming getting rid of all the dead branches. Luckily we got to harvest a bunch of apples from this tree and made some good apple sauce with it.
Crab apple tree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus
Wood peckers have been going at this tree for years, yet it still lives and produces tasty fruit.
Amazing such a nasty looking tree is still alive and seemingly happy.
Fruiting bush:
Blackhaw is a plant I planned on buying, but now I found them out in the wild I will just visit this plant every so often and see if its bearing fruit.
Blackhaw
Using apps like Plantnet and Plant ID really helps me figure out possible species when spotting a plant, tree or bush of interest. This bush can produce berries that can be made into jams or jellies.
very nice plant. and also lots of big trees. How are you today friend?
They sure are.. many of them here.
Life is good my friend.
pleased to hear it. and we hope that we can always live well.
yeah bud
👍👍😁
There are many different trees there man, if you eat one fruit from each one you might explode haha. By the way, I've never eaten wild dates before, I wonder what they taste like.
Haha well you gotta try them to find out sometimes.. lol luckily I have not gotten sick from eating anything here yet.
Oh you mean the persimmons? They are not dates.. I have no palm trees here.. lol
The persimmons have a custard like flavor, quite sweet.
Oh when I translate that word it give me dates XD I got it man. I hope you never get sick what from you eat there!
What a solid verity of plants there that are already very well established! Raspberries would be my fav and dang that cherry tree is going to be a challenge lol I had no idea they got that big.
I love raspberries too, will see if I can get some next spring before the bears eat them all.. haha
Yeah that one cherry tree is huge, luckily I have some more on the property that is more in picking range..
Yuhh it looks like you have excellent varieties of trees and bushes, and waiting your hive garden updates
Sure do, I will do some more posts as I have new reports on my findings.
That's great! I love persimmons! And cherry trees and nut trees too, you lucked out!
Yeah man I am loving it here in Virginia, so many great native plants to enjoy.
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Neem oil is a good treatment for fruit trees that have various forms of blight.
Oh gotcha, okay I will look into using that to help the Persimmon tree. thanks for the suggestion.
dude before you eat those persimmons you follow my advice and let them get ripe almost rotten hehe, serious, or they will seriously fuck up your mouth and lips for some time, creating a kind of papery white thing all over that is super unpleasant.
Having said this, persimmon and nuts are both amazing sources of oils and unique elements, i eat those every time i can, shame that persimmons are hard to find outside the season... also i am sure i dont need to say, those nuts green outside will paint your hands dark af :D
Cheers Solo!
Hah too late, I bit into one not ripe enough yet and wondered why my mouth went numb for a few minutes...lol!
Well at least I know its the astringent variety.. probably a Hachiya from what I read.
I had one that was ripe and indeed it was quite lovely.
Hah I think you are confusing walnuts with hickory nuts. So far our hands have not gotten colored from handling the husks.. they come off just leaving them to ripen on their own.
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The tree looks big but seriously it doesn't look healthy from the leaves, I hope the fruits are okay😁
Yeah I think it has some kind of illness, hopefully I can help it get better.
We got to try one of the fruit in the last few days, most are still not ripe but one of them was and quite tasty.
You can make persimmon butter when they get ripe enough, it is so good.
Nice, only one side of the tree is fruiting, so we will probably just get enough to eat raw. But this winter we plan on thinning out the trees around the producing nut and fruit trees so maybe we will get way more next year and we can make butters and such with them.
Honestly I do not think I have tried persimmon butter, its probably really tasty. thanks for the suggestion.
You are welcome, it is very good.
If for some odd reason, you decide to cut down that Wild Cherry tree, you'll have some wonderful wood to BBQ with!! My father-in-law had to cut his down and I scooped up some - OMG, dynamit flavor on the BBQ!!!
Oh good point, I have used cherry wood in a smoker and it added some great flavor.
Apple wood is also good.
Well hopefully I do not need to cut them down, but if I do good to know.
Apple is really good on pork, but if you get a chance use the cherry on a beef steak - incredible!!
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Wow, what a harvest! I just picked some walnuts here in Prague a few days ago, that´s like the only kind of nut you can get here for free as it grows commonly in parks and even on the streets. Nuts are awesome. Delicious, nutritious and super healthy :) Enjoy!
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I'm not familiar with the other fruits in your area, especially the orange ones. I'm acquainted with peanuts, regardless of the variety, but I'm not well-acquainted with orange-colored fruits.