Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: Junie on October 21, 2010, 22:24
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We have a couple of Walnut trees and OH has been cracking nuts all evening!, can anybody think of any uses for walnut shells? We don't like to see things go to waste.
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We find em excellent for lighting the fire :D
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According to wiki they can be used during the process of oil well drilling. So, there you go then. Hope that helps.
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can be used to clean out difficult to access glassware like decanters and narrow vases, just add broken shells and some water and shake vigorously. That has taken half a handful at least. Ours all go on the compost
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I have just had a thought. I was wondering whether they would be good slug deterrents, if broken up a bit and sprinkled on the ground ?
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We had a go at the slug deterrent use, Junie. It wasn't all that successful as they're hard to break up even after light oven toasting to crisp up. ::)
We tend to use them as tode recommended, for fire lighting. They're great at that!
:)
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We had a go at the slug deterrent use, Junie. It wasn't all that successful as they're hard to break up even after light oven toasting to crisp up. ::)
We tend to use them as tode recommended, for fire lighting. They're great at that!
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Good to know, thank you .I was thinking of taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut!!
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You can use them in a sand blaster as a more softer medium than sand
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You can use them in a sand blaster as a more softer medium than sand
gosh - how many would I need !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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Rice is good, too ;)
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According to wiki they can be used during the process of oil well drilling. So, there you go then. Hope that helps.
That's handy ..... just feel like popping over the field for a bit of drilling :D
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Little bowls for hamsters? :-D
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Little bowls for hamsters? :-D
They's knock those over or put them in their pouch!! :D It did give me the idea of hamster hard hats though! :D
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Hard hats!!! Fah-bulous!!!! :D
Here's another idea... Christmas hanging ornaments!!!
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/good-fortune-walnuts-674982/
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My children when young used to have lots of fun in the bath or the paddling pool using them a little boats.
:)
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If you bang two half shells together you can make a noise like a small horse. :)
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If you bang two half shells together you can make a noise like a small horse. :)
You mean a Shetland pony? :D
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If you bang two half shells together you can make a noise like a small horse. :)
You mean a Shetland pony? :D
I was thinking smaller still, paint them pink , put `em in a nice box and knock `em out at £4.99 as a 'My Little Pony' acoustic kit. :)
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With three half-shells and a bit of string, you could make an ecological bikini :D
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Men could use a couple for their origional use...........to cover some nuts ;)
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Steady girl ::)
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Aren't you thinking of Kentish cobs ?
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Not had any if those for year.
I used to know a lady who had a plat (where they grow hazel nuts) and they were wonderful when fresh - moist and creamy taste.
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"Plat" - that's a new one for me, Auntie.
Do you still get those big ones with the 'frilly' bits round (don't know what the correct botanical name is for the green bit :blush: )
Used to be a time when you had a choice of hazelnuts in the greengrocer's.
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"Plat" - that's a new one for me, Auntie.
Do you still get those big ones with the 'frilly' bits round (don't know what the correct botanical name is for the green bit :blush: )
Used to be a time when you had a choice of hazelnuts in the greengrocer's.
I know a good place for filbert (full-beard) scrumping but i forgot to go this year. ???
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That's the word I was looking for: FILBERT.
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You can make Van Dyke Crystals from walnut husks. A natural, waterbased woodstain, different shades from ebony to light brown are made by dilution with warm water. I use them for staining 2 pack filler to match wood.
Never made them myself, i use the Libereon ones, but im pretty sure you just grind then toast the husks.
Enjoy playing with your nuts! ;)
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There was a time when you could clean jet engine turbine blades with walnut shells.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut
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Our Parrot loves them!!!!!!!!!!!! She chews them to bits.
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Our Parrot loves them!!!!!!!!!!!! She chews them to bits.
Do think the chickens would get so excited?
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"Plat" - that's a new one for me, Auntie.
Do you still get those big ones with the 'frilly' bits round (don't know what the correct botanical name is for the green bit :blush: )
Used to be a time when you had a choice of hazelnuts in the greengrocer's.
There are lots of places in Kent called *plat (or platt).
St. Mary's Platt
St. John's Platt
Platt's Bottom
and Platt itself.
There were a lot of cob nuts (or filberts) grown in Kent, green cobnust are fabulous.
Kent Cobnuts (http://www.slowfoodark.com/Cms/Page/london-and-south-east)
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There are lots of places in Kent called *plat (or platt).
St. Mary's Platt
St. John's Platt
Platt's Bottom
and Platt itself.
There were a lot of cob nuts (or filberts) grown in Kent, green cobnust are fabulous.
Kent Cobnuts (http://www.slowfoodark.com/Cms/Page/london-and-south-east)
Isn't it Pratts Bottom or is there a Platts bottom too that I have never heard of? Where abouts is it?
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My children when young used to have lots of fun in the bath or the paddling pool using them a little boats.
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Your children must be very small indeed. :D
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a former sister-in-law used to 'borrow' the walnuts we grew (before the trunk got hollow and we had to cut it down). She scoured the 'velvet' off the outside and gave me back the scrubbed nuts (ooh, Matron) which I could then leave on the boiler in a basket for a few months before munching them at Christmas.
What she did with all the yucky velvet scrapings was to steep them in water then boil it up and reduce down, ending up with a cream-consistency gunge which she used for single colour watercolour paintings - different dilutions giving the sepia equivalent of grey scale.
Odd woman. Talented artist but daft as a box of frogs.
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If you bang two half shells together you can make a noise like a small horse. :)
[brilliant, I'm going to run over the allotment now before it gets dark and get at least an hour in of making a noise like a small horse!! :lol:]