By the time you read this, we will have planted a bunch of walnuts with the 3rd graders! We are in our third year of this program. As you know, last year we didn’t have such good results from our nuts—a problem we are working with this year by gathering nuts from several different trees. We were able to gather nuts from three different trees in Waelder in November with help from Arline, Thomas, Jackie, Carolyn P, Gail, Nancy F (and I know I have left someone out.) We now have nuts from at least four trees. We hope to track the success rates of specific trees by marking the pots to identify the tree it came from.
We had a successful potting party last Tuesday and prepped 260 pots to receive nuts. With the help of Fran, Nancy F, Barbara, Carolyn P, Carolyn W, Lynette, Jackie and Gail, we did it all in about an hour and a half including emptying the old pots and unloading the milk cartons Nancy had arranged for us to borrow from HEB. Wow, you should have seen those milk cartons on the back of that truck. They towered over the cab.
We’ll be doing a little different program this year, including a skit for the kids on natural resource conservation and we will let you know how it goes. We are also going to double seed the pots to try to ensure that we get a larger number of trees. I’ve also heard some interest from the community this fall in our efforts to restore black walnuts in Gonzales. It’s great to know that folks out there are paying attention and appreciate the effort.
We had a successful potting party last Tuesday and prepped 260 pots to receive nuts. With the help of Fran, Nancy F, Barbara, Carolyn P, Carolyn W, Lynette, Jackie and Gail, we did it all in about an hour and a half including emptying the old pots and unloading the milk cartons Nancy had arranged for us to borrow from HEB. Wow, you should have seen those milk cartons on the back of that truck. They towered over the cab.
We’ll be doing a little different program this year, including a skit for the kids on natural resource conservation and we will let you know how it goes. We are also going to double seed the pots to try to ensure that we get a larger number of trees. I’ve also heard some interest from the community this fall in our efforts to restore black walnuts in Gonzales. It’s great to know that folks out there are paying attention and appreciate the effort.