From nursery selection to mature orchard management

The Walnut Grower's Handbook

Practical guidance for planning, planting, irrigating, managing and developing a commercial walnut orchard.

Rows of young grafted walnut trees under drip irrigation in a commercial orchard
Land being prepared for a new walnut orchard

Section 1 Planning Your Walnut Orchard

The decisions taken before a single tree is planted, and the ones that are most expensive to reverse afterwards.

A newly planted walnut tree, with the graft union held clear of the soil line

Section 2 Establishing the Orchard

The first season in the ground, where most of the losses a young orchard ever suffers are decided.

A nursery worker checking young walnut trees in full leaf

Section 3 Growing Young Trees

Years one to five: building the frame the orchard will carry its crop on for the next three decades.

A tractor spraying a mature, bearing walnut orchard

Section 4 Managing the Mature Orchard

Protecting the investment once the trees are bearing, and the numbers that decide whether it was a good one.

Built from three decades of nursery and orchard experience

Waltree has been grafting walnut trees in Bandirma since 1992 and supplies commercial growers across Europe and Asia. This handbook collects what we tell our own customers when they ask how to plant and manage what they have bought.

1992 Nursery founded
300,000+ Grafted trees a year
80% Of production exported

Planning a walnut orchard?

Tell us your location, your land and roughly how many trees you have in mind, and we will advise on varieties, pollenizers and quantities.

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