to allow for good air circulation. 5. Although there are currently no late blight resistant tomato plants do look for certified disease-free seeds and plants. 6. Destroy volunteer tomato and potato plants and nightshade family... (6 replies, last updated by Gio July 10, 2009)

Chinese chestnuts produce smaller nuts than American or European chestnuts and are quite edible if a bit tedious to shell. There have been some American-Chinese chestnut hybrids that produce larger nuts yet still resist the... (1 reply, last updated by Eldon Kreider September 30, 2006)

There is only a handful of nut-bearing chestnuts in New England. The blight got every chestnut tree there in a single decade, 100 years ago. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station worked to develop resistant hybrids at a... (49 replies, last updated by StriperGuy October 19, 2009)

. The variety being grown is a blight-resistant variety - definitely not the same animal as the native. (5 replies, last updated by hannaone May 14, 2007)

Not only are they not edible, they’re toxic. And they’re likely to be the only thing you’ll randomly happen upon – thanks to careless/ignorant importations a century ago, chestnut blight is more or less... (7 replies, last updated by Kater December 18, 2006)

And it’s running rampant through the rest of the Northeast as well...this from Northern NJ: http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090731/COMMUNITIES/90730052/Blight-infecting-Morris-County-tomatoes&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL (15 replies, last updated by MakingSense August 1, 2009)

No, there is no (or very little) chestnut honey produced in the US, because of the chestnut blight that killed most mature chestnut trees. A few nurseries are slowly reintroducing blight-resistant trees, but chestnuts are not... (21 replies, last updated by chibi February 23, 2003)

We find they grow better on a trellis. The fruit stays cleaner and less subject to rot, the foliage seems more resistant to mildew and blight (probably because of better air circulation). The vines have a tendency to send off... (7 replies, last updated by p.j. August 23, 2009)

and Wolf River are all but impossible to find. I don’t know why Wolf River are so difficult. The trees are supposed to be very hardy and the apples resistant to blight etc, I guess they may not be considered as “pretty” as some... (12 replies, last updated by Deborah B October 20, 2008)

rigorously bred to resist insects, blight, and drought, not to taste good. It’s a shame. (25 replies, last updated by yumyum September 11, 2003)

Browsing another one of my guaranteed to make me hungry spots, I came across this and couldn’t resist posting it for you. Keep it in mind if you get to Portland ~... (27 replies, last updated by Ruth Lafler July 23, 2007)

A chestnut in its edible stage is all but impregnable by worms, so a chestnut with a worm is garbage for two reasons. Also, there are very few edible chestnuts in the U.S. Some sprouted from surviving root systems after the... (41 replies, last updated by buttertart November 3, 2009)

There is an interesting book called, I think The Potato (can’t seem to locate my copy) in the same vein, but not quite as good as the excellent book Cod. Essentially it is a social history of the potato, the initial... (19 replies, last updated by JoanB April 30, 2003)

lived (Badener, Baden-Wurtemburg), but also had a lot of Pfalz and Hessen wines. I heard a story that all German vines are actually generations of vines that were brought back from the US in the 19th Century after a blight wiped... (7 replies, last updated by bunnyr October 20, 2003)

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were serious issues about selling it fresh. After all, most corn farmers consider it a dangerous blight and don’t want to risk having their crop infected by someone casually... (25 replies, last updated by little big al October 16, 2009)