The Prodigal Nut Returns

Welcome back, chestnut!

Scientists continue to try to revive the nut tree, and chestnut lovers continue to hope.

They’re tiny, and filled with sweet, smoky wonderfulness.

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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...

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...

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...

. The variety being grown is a blight-resistant variety - definitely not the same animal as the native.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

rigorously bred to resist insects, blight, and drought, not to taste good. It’s a shame.

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 ~...