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Walnuts give almonds a run for their money as the most indispensable nut in the pantry. We call them English walnuts. The English call them Persian walnuts. I wonder what the Persians call them.

Q. Two years ago, I bought two Carpathian English Walnut trees from a mail-order nursery. One was strong, the other weak. The small tree's leaves turned black and dropped off, but the tree itself did ...

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Q. We recently removed an old English walnut tree from our yard. We are now wondering what to plant in its place. Somewhere, we have heard or read that one needs to be careful when planting in and ...

These two popular nuts have distinct differences you should note before swapping. Pecans and walnuts are two versatile and popular nuts used in both sweet and savory dishes. At first glance, ...

If you live near a walnut tree, there’s no escaping hearing the hard plunking sound of falling nuts this time of year. There’s also no avoiding the dark stains on the streets coming from walnuts ...

If you stumble upon a black walnut lying on the ground, you may not know what it is. That’s because the distinctive-tasting nutmeat looks very different than the green, baseball-sized husk that ...