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| Has anyone ever gardened successfully around Walnut trees? Any suggestions? Cutting them down wld just be silly...it'll take 7-10 yrs for the toxin to dissipate. My veggie garden is bordered by them and my only other option is to take part of our pasture for it, and that's not really a viable option for us. I also considered trying to work my veggies into my flower gardens, but sun is an issue in those areas. Any suggestions or help wld be appreciated:) Thanks
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| I have heard lots of horror storeys about walnut toxins. I heard that nothing will grow within 10 foot off them and I also have heard that a horse standing on walnut sawdust, well I dont know what will happen but I do know it will be expensive. I will have my wife remind me what happens to horses. I automatically turn all awareness off when anyone talks about horses. I will say this though: Any toxins have no affect on grass, I have at least forty walnut trees in our furthest away paddock and we have pretty lush grass around the trees and the stupid horses eat that grass. In my front garden I have 43 huge oak trees and two Black walnuts and the grass there is unaffected by the trees. Just my observations.
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| I've had some success gardening under/near black walnuts using raised beds & lots of compost. Black Rasberries are the only crop that I've found grows good under the walnut trees without alot of soil work.
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| Your stupid horses are probably like my goats. They have not read that the walnut toxins are bad for them. My goats have apparently not read that the chokecherries are poisonous as they just eat them and the branches and leaves with no consequences (except to the trees which are going to die). Mary Ann
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| I also have black raspberried growing under mine and they do great:) Otherwise yes grass and weeds seem to not be affected, unfortunately:) I found a list of garden veggies that are supposed to do ok...but haven't had much luck even with those. I am a beginning gardener...so that might be part of the problem:) My goats also ate chokecherries this summer, with no ill effects...now my horse got into a limb that fell into his lower pasture and we almost lost him over it.
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| My better half says the sawdust can give horses founder or flounder or something like that. Clever that, we are about 1000 miles away from the sea. Apparently founder/flounder has just changed too laminitus.
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| Further update from better half. Next door thinks the black walnut trees killed his apple trees. I did notice a load of his apples were dead, I will look this evening and see if it is the ones closest to the walnuts. Apparently stupid, stupider and really stupid (our three horses) also eat cherry trees, they strip the bark off of them and actually kill them - unfortunately I mean the trees die.
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| I believe that only the wilted and dead leaves of a cherry tree are toxic to horses and cattle. A ranch I worked for lost some cattle a wk after a storm because they ate the wilted leaves from a cherry tree that blew down. Or that's what the vet and cattle guy decided was the cause. I'm interested to know if the walnuts killed the apple trees because I am planning to start a small orchard. I am going to attempt raised beds I think as suggested. I might even place them here and there around my property to attempt to avoid the 32 Walnuts. Almost every other tree on my property is an oak or a cherry. I have one Hackberry and a Mulberry tree. The pasture even has Walnuts here and there in it, along with a cpl Hickory. I love my trees, but I never even thought that they cld cause me so much trouble with my gardening when we bought the place. Oh well...at least I have plenty of nuts for my pies and breads:)
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| I am sorry SAL I forgot to go and look last night at the apples, I will go tonight when I get home from work. Do you know we have a crab apple tree that stands right in the middle of the Black Walnuts and it does really well every year. It is my "spring is here" announcer. I will measure the distance from the apple to the walnuts tonight as well.
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| I have several walnut trees on my property. I refuse to cut them down for two reasons. 1) the meat from black walnuts is excellent and my family uses all we can get our hands on. 2) The next generation will be able to sell the wood from the trees I am allowing to grow unmolested near my orchard and grain fields. It probably reduces the yields from my crops some (the roots and shade from any tree will do the same) but in the long run I believe the benefits are worth the drawbacks.
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