{"id":3755,"date":"2025-08-31T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:56:17","slug":"nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3763\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">When people would come to the family property these last couple decades, my father would always ask &#8220;wanna see my nuts?&#8221; These are my father&#8217;s nuts. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 20 years ago, my father began planting nut trees. He knew that it would take more than a decade (sometimes two) before they would begin producing fruit. He planted a row of 4 and then added more over the years. Now there are about a dozen of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153903411-copy-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3757\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153903411-copy-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153903411-copy-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153903411-copy-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153903411-copy.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The two largest ones are gorgeous, dark green, broadleaved chestnut trees. Their fruit look like rambutan or lychee. I have yet to taste the fruit, but I look forward to picking them off the ground over then next month. I gathered the first three today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3453-copy-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3760\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3453-copy-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3453-copy-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3453-copy-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3453-copy.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have yet to determine what kind of chestnut, but they are likely northern chestnuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153730389-copy-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3758\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153730389-copy-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153730389-copy-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153730389-copy-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_153730389-copy.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The most prolific nuts currently are the heartnuts &#8211; a type of Japanese walnut &#8211; pictured at centre. They are really mild and easy to open once the husk has been removed and the nut has been dried\/cured for a few months. I found a few cured unopened nuts on the ground and one of them was not rotten, so we enjoyed that today. An <em>amuse-bouche<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_152642566-copy-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3764\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_152642566-copy-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_152642566-copy-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_152642566-copy-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PXL_20250829_152642566-copy-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3763\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3464-copy.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3462-copy-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3762\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3462-copy-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3462-copy-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3462-copy-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSC_3462-copy.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing based on my recollections of what my father told me and from Google Lens that this is black walnut. I haven&#8217;t tried one yet, but there are quite a few in the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What hasn&#8217;t produced yet are the northern pecans, but the trees look young. On the contrary, the wild hazelnuts have produced a lot of fruit, but the squirrels have sequestered every single one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 20 years ago, my father began planting nut trees. He knew that it would take more than a decade (sometimes two) before they would begin producing fruit. He planted a row of 4 and then added more over the years. Now there are about a dozen of them. The two largest ones are gorgeous, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2025\/08\/31\/nuts\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,20,30],"tags":[37,40,36,41],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-3755","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-family","9":"category-food","10":"category-nature","11":"category-zr","12":"post_tag-living-on-the-land","13":"post_tag-orchard","14":"post_tag-papa","15":"post_tag-patience"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}