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Walnuts are hell on other plant life. I have a couple black walnut trees on the edge of my lawn, and I have had to experiment a bunch to see what vegetables I

• craftyguy 9y ago
  Did you find any that would grow in that environment?
  • megaman22 9y ago
    Most greens (spinach, kale, swiss chard, beets) seem to do pretty ok. Green and pole beans do quite well. Broccoli did alright, at least the plants, though I had a pack of baby rabbits that savaged it when it was small, and it never headed up after that. Very mediocre results with my tomatoes and cucumbers this year, but it was very, very dry. Oh, and zucchini. But you can almost plant zucchini on asphalt and it would find a way to produce bushels of the stuff...
  • dejv 9y ago
    You really need to take care of fallen leaves as they are the main way of walnut to combat a competition. Once you rake the leaves every year you should be quite fine growing most of the vegetables that didn't require a lot of sun.
• dom0 9y ago
  I can't confirm that, there's plenty of plants around the regia tree in my garden. It has had fungus since forever (like every walnut tree I've ever seen), so that might keep it from doing that.
  • ihsw2 9y ago
    English walnut differs from black walnut in that the juglones -- the protective gas emitted by walnut trees -- are emitted less. Furthermore, it is easy to confuse water stress with juglone gas stress, so sometimes these symptoms can be remedied with more water. Given what the parent commenter has said about having to experiment with different plants, it stands to reason that they have a healthy black walnut tree in their garden rather than a regia.