Chinese chestnuts are a favorite nut tree to plant in the United States, because of the early production of nuts and the cold hardiness of the chestnut plant. The Chinese chestnut is an excellent flavored chestnut, but the native American chestnut tree produces the sweetest flavored chestnut, and both the Chinese chestnut and the American Chestnuts have a cold hardiness that makes it possible to grow both nut cultivars in almost every State.
The Chinese chestnut tree bears dreamy flavored nuts reliably every year, and usually the nut bearing begins in the second year of planting, and there are very few pests or soil problems that are known to interfere with producing high quality, tasty chestnuts, ever. The biggest problem with growing chestnuts is making sure that you watch the burrs opening in time to pick the chestnuts up before the wildlife animals can get to them before you get there.
The green chestnut burr is sticky and prevents wildlife from taking the chestnut crop off the tree before it is ripe.
Colossal Chestnut Trees
The Colossal Chesnut can grow as large as a Lemon and is delicious to eat when roasted and peeled.
Planting an American Chestnut Tree
Great intrest has developed in replanting forests of the native American Chestnut tree. Intercrossing American Chestnuts with other foreign chestnut species has created promising seedlings that are resistant to the chestnut blight that devastated early American native chestnut trees.
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