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    Nuts, oh hazelnuts...

    Jul 06, 2022 3 minutes
    Mark Diacono

    ROUND the edge of the field where, 15 years ago, I planted pecans, sweet chestnuts, almonds, bladdernuts and heartnuts, the hazels quietly got on with things. In the sunniest of summers after a frost-free late spring, the more marginal pecans and almonds were plentiful, whereas the hazels produced heavily every year regardless. It’s not surprising: those hedgerow hazels are much more well suited to our climate and we have been harvesting their wild ancestors on these islands since at least Mesolithic times. I grew

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