I was thinking of planing some hazel in my garden this winter, I just wonder if they would grow here as I don't see any growing round about. I am in the north east of Scotland the soil is a bit acidic but can apply lime. Plenty of beech willow hawthorn ash birch spruce pine holly growing well where I am.
Would be great to have my own hazel nuts, Any advice?
The local naturally regenerated wood land around here is acidic coalmine clay , sometimes over laid with several metres of Victorian coalmine slag as well .
The local to me land is is growing loads of Filberts , a few nettles but not masses ,,Brambles , Oak trees, Sally Willow , Holly .. males & females, some Laurels , Leylandi , Ash , Acers & fruit trees to mention but a few
On the normal ground there is a black limestone base about three metres down .... It's wet and mossy out in the woodland at the back of my garden , there are no end of self seeded or squirrel seeded Filberts in it.
So I guess they might be grow-able almost anywhere .
Earlier this year I had the joy of removing eight sprouting hazel nuts and a dozen or more sprouting acorns out my veg beds ( soil free )which are only slightly acidic , being almost PH neutral .
Would you like me to see if the squizzers have left any half decent nuts on the branches and then pop them in the freezer to stratify them for a month or so to bring them to a state of being able to grow easily next year ?
Topic: hazelnut / filbert trees (Read 2700 times)
