Well, those were my thoughts....
The blight...getting filberts that are now more disease resistant....
Don't want to have to do any top work on trees..
I should have given thought to the birds getting the nuts since the crows in SoCal always beat my neighbor to his pecans...
If kept shrubby, I could 'net' them.....?
Didn't think about the birds, but oddly enough, did give some thought to bears. We do occasionally get bears and growing nuts/ fruit...will that draw more bears? lol.....not much worried about the occasional bear, but don't want to encourage them. I remember a DG'er who lived in Hoopa (Ca) encountering bears when she was out after apples near her property. I'm only used to having to deal with coyotes and the occasional bobcat, bears have outside my realm of probabilities....lol..
Well this will be moot for awhile...rebeccag in Pistol River was going to be picking them up for me in Salem. She's closed her nursery, but she and a friend from Crescent City who also previously had a nursery were going to be doing a run to pick up a load of plants in Salem for another nursery owner here in Crescent City. In Barb's diesel truck and pulling a 20' trailer...hit ice 10 miles out of Reedsport, hit 50' of guard rail, then out of control, ending by hitting rocks and the trailer blocking the highway....the truck's a total, trailer still in Reedsport and they're both simply lucky to still be alive...guess my filberts can wait awhile.
Should I be thinking of planting filberts given the mentioned problems? Worth the trouble? Don't waste space on them?
