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Post by steev on Oct 26, 2015 18:45:58 GMT -5
The fact that they are relatively trouble-free trees that drop their nuts for harvest is attractive, since I'm getting a tad leery about going up ladders (well, no: it's coming down off ladders, unintentionally, that gives me the wim-wams). Of course, in CA you can always shake the trees!  I'm a mover, but not a shaker; no Shakers in Cali. |
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Post by philagardener on Oct 26, 2015 19:49:52 GMT -5
Of course, in CA you can always shake the trees! I'm a mover, but not a shaker; no Shakers in Cali. Just Quakers, perchance? |
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Post by steev on Oct 26, 2015 21:09:33 GMT -5
Are you referring to Restless Earth Syndrome? Whatever; can't say I've noticed any Quakers; plenty of Mennonites, though; Cali has a very diverse population, to our great benefit.
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Post by coppice on Nov 5, 2015 9:14:30 GMT -5
Castenea, everybody (else's) chestnuts have gone to sleep but yours. I am having my daughter hold off transplanting them to field due to them being awake. Am I just being over protective?
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Chestnuts
Nov 5, 2015 17:37:49 GMT -5
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Post by haslamhulme on Nov 5, 2015 17:37:49 GMT -5
Those Cheatnuts are awesome.I think we only have European chestnuts here,small nuts mostly but managed to collect about 20 or 30 kilos of them last year(they can cost about £2-4 per kilo here),this years harvest was abysmal,don't know if it was a mast year last year or something,weather this year has been almost identical.
Most of them were planted over 100 years ago by a very forward thinking estate owner whilst redeveloping the land they owned on the edge of Birmingham city centre(Calthorpe estates).I have noticed quite wide variance in the nuts,the seed casing(the spiky green-don't know the proper name-bit) tree size and leaf size and shape-is there any easy way to tell what is a hybrid,Japanese or Chinese just by looking at them?.I grew a few seedlings from the best nuts and wondering know what they might be also
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Post by steev on Nov 5, 2015 19:24:15 GMT -5
Lucky you, to have such a venerable gene-shed to play with!
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Nov 6, 2015 0:40:05 GMT -5
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Post by haslamhulme on Nov 6, 2015 0:40:05 GMT -5
When it comes to sweet chestnuts maybe,they neglected to plant anything else edible though so we've got loads and loads of horse chestnut to every sweet chestnut tree,I think they were only thinking of aesthetics-these big city types,thinking trees are for making their civic spaces look nice rather than being a source of food for people and wildlife!,and don't get me started on(could have chosen a useful tree here) orna-mental cherries. grrrr.I suppose at least they planted something,some UK cities are all concrete,even the dandelions take one look at the place and go somewhere else
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Post by steev on Nov 6, 2015 2:59:25 GMT -5
Horse chestnuts, like acorns, can be ground, leached, and used for food; not to say I'd recommend it, but the indigenous folk of California commonly used it.
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Post by coppice on Nov 18, 2015 16:53:44 GMT -5
Castenea, your chestnuts arrived today. Thank you!
Last year some of your nuts went directly to field in the spring. A few went into a big paper-white pan and I grew them out on my porch. They went to field last week.
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Post by castanea on Nov 19, 2015 23:50:30 GMT -5
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