Even a small garden offers its owner attractive design options - there is plenty of space for many plants. But what if a hobby gardener wants to cultivate a walnut tree? On average, walnuts are up to 25 meters high and often very wide - the crown diameter reaches up to 15 meters. With such dimensions, it is logically utopian to keep a walnut in a small garden. Luckily there are still possibilities to realize the dream of a walnut tree in the green oasis. We will briefly present these options to you in our article.

There are also walnut varieties that stay small

Dwarf varieties of walnuts as the optimal solution

In order to give a walnut tree in a small garden the chance to develop fully, you must not rely on "conventional" walnuts.

Note: Ignorant hobby gardeners sometimes try to keep a walnut tree small by force by regularly pruning it radically. However, this leads to unhealthy growth and a short life expectancy of the tree.

There are now also dwarf varieties of walnut trees. These are special breeds that are refined on weak documents. As a result, only the smallest trees grow from them, which you can easily plant even in a small garden.

Good news: Even dwarf varieties of walnut trees bring you what you probably want to think of such a tree in the first place: walnuts.

Portrait of the dwarf variety 'Europa'

One of these dwarf walnut varieties is called 'Europa'. It only grows to about 3.5 meters tall - which is impressively short compared to regular walnut trees.

'Europa' has the ability to set fruit laterally, which in turn comes with a fairly high yield potential. The walnut dwarf develops large, oval-shaped nuts that are very easy to open. You can expect the first yields after just two to three years. This is even a significant advantage over conventionally growing walnut trees, where the very first harvest is usually much longer in coming.

'Weinsberger Walnuss' as a small "classic" walnut

If your garden is not so small that you have to resort to a dwarf variety, there is also the option of planting a relatively small "classic" variety: to our knowledge, the 'Weinsberger Walnut' is the version with the smallest space requirement. Your crown reaches a diameter of seven to eight meters.

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