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[kram]

They dont seem very common over here. I've never seen one, but a few arboretums list them so might be worth a visit.

Theres a few uk nuserys with them listed if you wanted to buy saplings.

[Rushes]

16 hours ago, kram said:

They dont seem very common over here. I've never seen one, but a few arboretums list them so might be worth a visit.

Theres a few uk nuserys with them listed if you wanted to buy saplings.

 

Good call - I will take a look at some local arboreta.

[sime42]

 

 

 

 

Chinese hawthorn. A bumper year, like most everything else.

 

They make excellent toffee apples. 

 

 

 

[sime42]

So they are good. 

 

[Steven P]

Tend to do mine in the ash pan, works either way but the ones that explode are contained better.

[sime42]

21 minutes ago, Steven P said:

Tend to do mine in the ash pan, works either way but the ones that explode are contained better.

 

Cut the tips of first, or just prick them with a knife and they don't tend to explode I find. 

[Steven P]

Too impatient obviously, I'll try that next time

[Nopedigree]

Stab em with a four pronged fork, it catches one's that have multiple "cells" in them. I roast mine in a chasser shop old chestnut pan on the embers of the stove between re stocking it. Cold beer at the ready... Food of the Gods on an autumn evening.

Nopedigree

[Mesterh]

Me and the kids have been out collecting chestnuts for the last couple of weeks. The older lad wasnt too interested so I foolishly said Ill give you 5p per chestnut, im 40 quid down now with a stack of chestnuts, I have had to palm them off to the grand parents.

 

[sime42]

17 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

Me and the kids have been out collecting chestnuts for the last couple of weeks. The older lad wasnt too interested so I foolishly said Ill give you 5p per chestnut, im 40 quid down now with a stack of chestnuts, I have had to palm them off to the grand parents.

 

 

Foolish!