Planting Under Walnut Trees

 Hi,

Our backyard has about 8 huge walnut trees. We want to create an English
style garden within this area which obviously is quite shady. We've heard
that walnut trees poison the soil and not everything can grow in this area -
would someone offer suggestions as to what would be good to plant in this
garde?

 Thanks.....

Randy.

 RJS wrote:

I don't have walnut trees, because every time I see 1 sprout up, I dig
it out by the roots. I do a lot of camping & every campground that
I've ever stayed in that had a walnut grove had nothing else growing
there except a few weeds.

Tom J

 

I have a huge English Walnut and yes, it is difficult to get even grass to
grow under it. My riding mower has great suction and I mow frequently to
keep the debris cleaned up so my grass will grow. If you plant anything
else, keep in mind the maintenance of cleaning up the walnut debris.

 Yes you're correct about that. It seems like there's about 4 stages to the
crap that falls from the trees. First in the spring there's long thin seed
type things that fall along with thousands of little balls (seeds?) then in
the fall there's long thin twig type things that fall along with the walnuts
(the size of golf balls) and the leaves.

 

Only four? Geez, this monster is dropping crap all the time!

Ok, so it 'pauses' sometimes while it gets ready for the next batch.  :-)