[Woodcarver] Re:CHAT! No Black Walnuts?

[Gordon Paterson]

Hmmm...Susan, maybe the trees are just doing just what you wrote,  "baring" 
rather than "bearing" buts this year.(G)

Gordon Paterson
Dowling, Ont.Can.


At 09:04 AM 10/6/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>This is CHAT so please feel free to use your delete command!
>
>OK, I have a question to throw out to anyone along the East Coast or
>Central US ...
>
>I'm out walking this morning and because of our talk about softwoods vs.
>hardwood, and that our leaves are changing colors, I was paying more
>than normal attention to the trees in our yard.  Now I noticed something
>very unusual ... We have a wide variety of trees which includes two
>English Walnuts, several Black Walnuts, and two Chinese Chestnuts, all
>well matured and nut baring.  Only there are no nuts.  Having noticed
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^
>this oddity I did a little closer inspection.   There is not one black
>walnut nut, not one English walnut nut, and zero chestnuts on the ground
>or still on the tree!
>
>This has never happened before. We have had years where the nut crops
>were very small but never where there wasn't even one nut on the ground.
>I should note here that we have lived on this piece of land for about 30
>years, so I know that this is a Once in 30 years occurrence. It was not
>an unusually wet or dry year, we don't have any blights that I know of,
>we didn't even have an unusually large amount of caterpillars that could
>have damaged every nut bearing tree. Having raked my little brain I can
>come up with only one idea.  Could this be a result of the 17 year
>cicadas????
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated because this really has me baffled.  Has
>anyone else noticed this or am I hallucinating?
>
>Thanks, Susan
>
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