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Default black walnuts, should I bother?

spamtrap1888 wrote:
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> Be careful what you want. Walnut trees hate competition, and secrete
> something called juglone that kills off other vegetation, although
> some plants are immune.


There's a whole group of nut trees that do that. Butternut and such.
The usual theory is to keep squirrels away from nut trees you plant a
ring of oaks then an empty space then the nut trees. I suggest dogs in
the empty space. It would take a very big place to pull that off.