Left: Close planted hazel nuts forming short hedgerows along contour microspray irrigation lines with interplanted Walnuts (netted against Sulpher Crested Cockatoos. Behind thinned and high pruned Tasmanian blue gum wind shelter and frost dam along Fourteenth Street verge. Nets now too small for trees due to be replaced with larger nets. |
Right: Exposed low nuts usually harvested for pickling (whole husk, shell and nut) just after new year. In background dam low from water pumped to header tank for irrigation of orchard by gravity fed microspray and dripper lines. |