Hundreds of chestnut trees for free.
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Chestnut trees could, and should, form the backbone of our staple diet here in the far north. We plant hundreds of chestnut trees every year, but without costing any money at all.
This video explains how we do it.
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Last month I picked up some hands full of sweet chestnuts from under a tree. Most of those I used to make chestnut-and-chocolate-brownies (delicious!). But the largest nuts I potted, hoping they will sprout and grow new trees. 🌱
You are now a tree breeder!
You got a big smile out of me straight away on this one! Thank you!
Thanks!
Bless your soul. What food trees did your ancestors rely on?
Here the main native tree nut would have been hazels.
What is the depth of your bins? Any issue with taproots hitting the bottom and taking 90 degree turn?
Also, would love to see an “unboxing” video and what the roots looks like, im sure people would love to see!
Thank you!,
They're roughly 14 inches deep. I don't worry too much about keeping the tap roots straight, they're flexible enough to be straightened when they're planted.
"Yield for thousands of years" -> does this mean a single chestnut tree can thrive for that long or do you imply the initial tree and any that will spawn from it?
I mean a single tree can yield for thousands of years. Here's a famous example. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Horse_Chestnut
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermacultureThat's fantastic. Just across the "canal" from my current location, on the island which is also a national park, there is a an olive tree that is believed to have been planted during the old roman times, at least 2000 years ago. How incredible and inspiring that is.
@@mkeyx82 tree crops are often the most amazing.
lol your rodent pressure must be super low. we have mice, suirrels, chipmunks galore in the USA. Nut seeds need to be fully protected from rodents for the first year, here.
Mice, voles and rats are our biggest issues. We don't have the invasive grey squirrels here, and the native red is functionally extinct locally. It's a niche area for nut production as a result. On the ground they get eaten, but just raising them that little bit is enough to keep them fairly safe.
I've had to dabble in prison architecture to keep the squirrels from my seedlings.
hahaha we have so much herbivory here that my food fortress...i mean food forest is totally fenced off from deer@@trenomas1
My problem is roe deer…defoliating and ring-barking my young trees. Seems to be more every year.