Here is the finished harvest ..or nearly so. Those were delicious - we roasted those and then chopped the kernels up and put those on ice cream. Unfortunately those don't last very long.
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Speck
8/26/2017 01:56:53 pm
Wow! I was looking up hazelnuts in Alberta and your website came up. Very impressive! I'm also in Lethbridge, AB, so this is intriguing. Hope this year's work is going well.
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Clyde Cutting
4/19/2018 07:13:40 pm
Investigating agroforestry in Minnesota, found your link to Commercial Hazelnuts in Minnesota but it is broken. Thanks to your reference though, found the article at:
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Marlo
4/19/2018 08:27:08 pm
I fixed that link - thanks for the heads up.
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Drew
6/4/2018 03:31:07 pm
Hey... What are your favorite varieties for the prairies?
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Marlo
6/4/2018 08:16:53 pm
It is hard to say which variety is best. The one Skinner bush does quite well the other seems suseptible to winter kill. The Northern variety seems good but the nuts are small. The Chinese varieties seem quite hardy as well but tend to have miniscule nuts. It seems linke the varieties that have larger nuts seem like those are less hardy. I have a couple of varieties with medium nuts that are doing quite well. I think those are Grimo nut varieties.
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Rene
3/6/2019 03:39:33 pm
Check this out, in Quebec they have a good option for zone 3.
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Melissa Trelenberg
9/6/2019 05:46:53 pm
I think I found hazelnuts growing on my property in Tofield but they dont seem to produce much can I do something to help them
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Marlo
9/8/2019 11:31:59 am
These are probably wild hazelnuts. If those were domesticated varieties those would require a different variety for pollination. ...unless you think you have something other than wild hazelnuts (beaked hazelnuts) then there is not much you can do other than plant at least 2 varieties of domesticated hazelnuts (you might try ordering some rootstock from Grimo Nut (see resources in my web site).
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Rene in Edmonton
11/18/2020 10:48:39 pm
Hello Marlo, I have an experimental nut grove in Edmonton. I have a number of Grimo named varieties, some numbered selections from Bernard Contre in Quebec and ten of Badgersett seedlings with which I’m experimenting, keeping track of catkin survival and nut ripening season. So far I’ve had good survival of plants, but my climate is better than your’s in Lethbridge, I would think.
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Marlo
11/19/2020 04:58:25 pm
Thanks for the report. I agree you probably have a more reliable climate for hazelnuts. Do you plan on selling any trees?
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Rene in Edmonton
11/19/2020 10:09:21 pm
I have a Skinner 3 from Grimo but it doesn’t do as well as his heterophylla selections. The Skinner has a lot of americana in it which makes the nuts later maturing. The Badgersett seedlings also are mostly americana, the catkins of which aren’t very winter hardy. I’m having the greatest success with the heterophylla selections.
Rene in Edmonton
11/19/2020 10:12:40 pm
I don’t plan on selling anything. I’m more interested in cross pollination and improving. I wish U of Sask would release some new ones.
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Shirley Tarves
1/14/2024 07:34:45 am
I have recently moved to Alberta from Vancouver Island in BC. We had a massive hazelnut tree that had been planted in the '30's by Oregan fruit growers (we think) I have no idea what type it would be. Do you think it could survive in the Red Deer area?
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Marlo
1/14/2024 08:19:56 pm
I composed this reply, so hopefully it is not duplicated. Alberta weather can be hard on Hazelnuts. A couple of years ago we had a sequence of cold then warm then cold spells. The warm period activated the hazelnut bushes into budding out then the cold weather kills the new growth causing partial winter kill in many of the my bushes. It has taken a couple of years off the bushes to recover. In some respects Red Deer will be a better place to try Hazelnuts than here is Lethbridge because it tends to be colder more consistently. That said I would recommend some of the hardy varieties from GrimoNut - I am not sure how well the Hazelnut variety from Vancouver would survive.
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