Growing Hazelnuts - with Birkemeier Farms & Birkemeier Nursery

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• how to prune young hazelnut trees

  Young hazelnut trees require yearly pruning in the orchard.  It’s crucial to prune new trees to establish the scaffold structure that will end up being the framework of your mature tree. When a tree i...

• How to plant a potted hazelnut tree - Growing Hazelnuts

  Growing Hazelnuts Some notes: A planting shovel is thinner and sharper than a standard spade or construction shovel. Planting shovels also have a flat end rather than a point. Much easier on your work...

• Filbert Orchard Planting 101 - Growing Hazelnuts

  Growing Hazelnuts Filbert Orchard Planting 101 Everyone has their own way of doing things. That also holds true in Filbert farming. This is the way we start new orchards at Birkemeier Farms. Prepare y...

• Variety and Price List 2022 / 2023 - Growing Hazelnuts

  Growing Hazelnuts Variety and Price List 2022 / 2023 Birkemeier Nursery sells only highly resistant hazelnut varieties that have been developed and released from Oregon State University’s Hazelnut Bre...

• Pruning first year Hazelnut trees

  Pruning a Hazelnut tree after its first year in the orchard.

• Pruning yearling hazelnut trees - Growing Hazelnuts

  Growing Hazelnuts It’s hard to prune trees. Not difficult – just hard. I just pruned a couple of ancient apple trees behind my Grandpa’s house last month, and I felt like I butchered them.  So I under...