I couldn't leave out the hard mast species when making videos. Hazelnuts are easy to grow and one of the two species (sometimes both) live just about everywhere in the eastern US and even parts of Canada. A nice bonus is they are quite tasty - if you beat the critters to them.

Hope you enjoy it.

Anthony

Most excellent.

I have loads of hazelnuts on my property, and all around this area, they do very well in this very sandy soil.

Anthony This is excellent info .Perhaps your best yet video on native plants .It is awesome .And the pictures are very good to go with the soundtrack .Yes please put something together on wood (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) I have shoot a few during my years hunting They are a unique bird. And they are also in decline due to loss of habitat . I have a couple of friends that travel to Maine and Canada each year to hunt them .I have two bird dogs and most years I will have the dogs flush a few while out hunting pheasants or just training .I usually have some migrate though some of the land I have permission to hunt .

ebsurveyor - Thank you!

Bernie - there are written accounts from the county next to mine of hazelnut thickets of tens to hundreds of acres in size that were used by a passenger pigeon roost as a food source. Hazelnuts are all but gone from here now, along with the pigeons. Was lucky to meet a landowner who still had some hazelnuts on his place and am currently growing from seeds collected from them.

w side rd 151 - Thank you! I try to improve a little with every video. Some are easier to put together than others due to available pictures. Woodcock were using our farm, but the timber and old fields are getting a little too old for them. Working on opening things up and getting some alder and hazelnut thickets growing.

I thought the sound and pictures where very well put together to highlight each other . In the 1980's and 1990's I did a good amount of archery hunting in W VA Mostly it was the last week of Oct through the first 3 weeks of Nov. The area had been logged in the very early 1980's Clear cuts in small size but scatted in various places and some thinning cuts also .where done . If the weather was right we would sometimes run into woodcock high up on the steep sides of some of the mountain ridges If there where small clear cuts nearby and the weather had them migrating through we would often see some . On quite a few sits I would hear something walking in the thickets and after what seem like forever a woodcock would appear near enough to see I know they are considered a wet land type bird But my thought was with the birds migrating from farther north and the presences of the clear cuts and the spring seeps high on the mountain sides nearby . the birds would lay over for a short time. It was a lay over spots to aid them during the flight south .But it most likely not at least at first thought be what most people would think is good woodcock territory

I have heard they will grow in ND, but can not say I have ever seen any that I know of. I will be looking into it.

MJM - they do grow in ND, both species can be found there. Looks like mostly the eastern and western parts of the state, but scattered documented records across the state.

Nice presentation on Hazel nuts.

I found quite a few on my land...have to pick them week before labor day through the week after.. I have over a quart of them in the shop..pretty labor intensive, and tossed about 50% that had the wormholes

Your right about beating the wildlife to them.
I have some growing on the edge of a feild. One year they were loaded with nuts.
I was looking forward to picking a bunch.
I was keeping an eye on them for weeks.
I figured they had about another week to go .
Came back in less than a week and they all was gone.

Later.

Moosetrot

You have to gather them just before they look totally ready or the critters will get them all. I have 400 stratifying in the fridge right now. If there weren't a bunch of shrubs where they came from I'd never get that many. If they germinate like they have in the past I should get 300+ plants out of them.

Very cool. I have them on one of my properties- I think it's the American Hazelnut. Mine like the dry areas.

Have at least 1000 beaked hazelnut shrubs on our property. They are a pain to process the nuts if I beat the squirrels to them. You know when they are ready as early morning on a calm day all of the squirrels will be climbing individual bushes to the very ends and bending them over to reach the nuts. Looks like a lot of green flags waving.

Chris

They grow well in Virginia. I planted several on my place and the deer love them. I had to wire cage them for the 1st 3 yrs because they were browsed so hard. Once they started producing, deer, bear, turkey, fox and grey squirrels and coons are all over them.

Mtnboomer - yep, everything loves hazelnuts! We had a small patch of them on the place we lived one county east of where we are now. When those nuts got ripe every critter in the woods was out there eating them. They do require caging when young or they stay well pruned by the deer. We have deer jump the nursery fence occasionally and they will nip the hazelnuts, along with just about everything else we grow. Except for ninebark, they tend to leave that alone.

Father in law taught ne the best way to gather hazelnuts.
Look where the mice stored them. lol
just

You guys ought to check out the turkish tree hazel. Those trees can get huge even up to 80 ft tall. Don't sucker and are prolific producers of small hazel nuts. Some husks will hold up to 8 nuts.

They're native to areas that get a lot of cold so I think they would do well in the upper midwest.

It says zone 4 on the Turkish Hazelnuts and all the other types I see. I don't think they would stand a good chance of making it here.