EatTheWeeds: Episode 54: Hickories

[Bently100]

I am having a great time watching your vids! Here is a question: How long to you think store bought unshelled nuts of various kinds last when you get them home?

[EatTheWeeds]

@Bently100 In good condition a season or two.

[CCourson05]

So as the layers of the hickory to make the Native American "milk", do you take away the husk, and grind the shell and nut meat?

[EatTheWeeds]

@CCourson05 Use just the nutmeat.

[LeonRFpoa]

Hickory! We got lots of those near here. I made two bows out of the last tree I felled with a camp saw. I noticed that the nuts were all over and that the deer and pigs in the area hang out where the nuts fall, right by the waterway. And yeah, the nuts that fall MUST be pignuts because they look like that. I was going to eat one but I found a rotten spot with maggots in it. Bad or safe with the maggots?

[EatTheWeeds]

@LeonRFpoa Maggots... extra protein....

[miketonon]

Can you eat butternuts? If you can, how do you prepare them?

[EatTheWeeds]

@miketonon Yes, same as hickories or walnuts. They were my mother's favorite.

[miketonon]

@EatTheWeeds, How do you deal with the sappy shell? Whats the best way to get the sap off your hands?

[EatTheWeeds]

@miketonon ...wear gloves.... 

[snocamo154]

Read somewhere that the husks of the hickory can be boiled and that the resulting dark water can be used as a dye.

[jfreesprt]

I just want to mention that the leaves of the Pecan and/or Walnut are good to make a "tea" out of to wash your skin if you have acne. It is astringent and works well on blemishes and oily skin.

[EatTheWeeds]

I don't know why not. Thanks.

[mpwmproductions]

I was wondering, can I promote you videos on my youtube page?

[ArboriusOwns]

I collected some hickories butter nuts chest nuts and black walnuts this fall. It's a fun way to spend time with the kids. Do you know how to make hickory salt?

[EatTheWeeds]

Yes, if you have a smoker just smoke two cups of coarse salt with two cups of soaked hickory chips. The same thing can be done with a grill using indirect grilling (putting the coals to one side and the salt to the other. Put the salt on aluminum foil, put the wet chips on the coals, and smoke away for an hour. You can do the same with mesquite chips.

[RonRay]

@EatTheWeeds

Making "Hickory salt" sounds like a GREAT idea! Thanks!

[chrlbaseball88]

maybe you could make some videos on the winter crops from your garden, if you have any

[desire4liberation]

natures gifts....

beautiful, miraculous creations

[MatureHealth]

Excellent video Deane. As always I've learned something new from you today. Thanks.

[yardsnacker]

Always a treat! Thanks for your work Green Deane!

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!

[joyisaware]

Thank you for sharing information about the Hickories, i learned many new things. Greetings, a big fan from the netherlands.

[EatTheWeeds]

Thank you... you should have hickories there, if I remember correctly.

[thanrose]

Of course, what I planted in my yard is a bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis. At 20 some odd years, it's just starting to produce nuts. Hickories generally are slow to mature into their nut-bearing years. Some species can take up to 80 years, I've read.

[EatTheWeeds]

Not all is lost. They can be leached like acorns. It takes a while, as do acorns but... food is food.

[MonicaLewandowski]

Where did you learn all of this stuff? I think it is great. I bet you will be totally fine when the economy collapses. You won't be going hungry!

[EatTheWeeds]

Well... we absorb what we like... music was my first love and plants second.

[MonicaLewandowski]

I suppose we do.. My mom is a pianist from Poland, I love to garden, even when I was a child I would save the seeds from the fruit I ate and plant them to observe their growth. I was an odd kid, though, but I still love to garden! I'm glad we can all benefit from your passion for plants.

[jojo808]

maybe hickory /basil pesto..? super informative Sir.

[EatTheWeeds]

That sounds tasty.... and an excellent application without too much work.

[zenkaiser1]

Thanks Green Dean that one answered all my Hickory/Walnut questions my books said some were too bitter to be edible but you seemed to have cleared that one up.Thanks for passing this knowledge on to a younger generation.

[EatTheWeeds]

It is curious that they don't mention that. I have some C. aquatica leaching now.

[dnHooligan]

another winner.

thanks, man.

[EatTheWeeds]

Thank you, though I am running out of season...

[Organjic]

Well, are there plants that flower or mature for eating in the winter?

[EatTheWeeds]

Depends on the location on the rotation I would suppose. Winter here is very mild, Christmas to Valentines Day, almost never a freeze though it has been unseasonably cool this week. Roots are good to dig up this time of year if you identified them ahead of time or know how to find them by brown leaves. About the only thing maturing in the winter is citrus.