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Interested in permaculture, forest gardens, edible landscapes, etc. Will be posting more videos of my forest garden now that it's finally starting to "grow up" a bit.
8/8/24 Forest Garden Lookaround
Just another one of these stupid walk-throughs, this time showing what's happening in early-mid August in a semi-mature edible forest garden system in zone 5, Michigan USA. A bit shorter than usual, but will still feel interminable and can probably be used as a sleep aid.
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7/18/24 Midsummer Forest Garden with Ample Rainfall
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A walk through my 3 acre food forest at the peak of summer, in a rare season with ample rainfall and no drought! See all of the midsummer wildflowers and check how the fruits are sizing up, including my first-ever pawpaws and persimmons.
July 4 Food Forest Foray
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A walk through my 3 acre edible forest garden in Lawton, MI on a summer evening after a good season of rain. First-ever fruits on Pawpaw and Persimmon trees (after 13 years of waiting), native roses in full bloom, and sampling fruit from various brambles and currants. More laffs and swearing than usual.
Mid-June: Serviceberries, Goumi, New Grafts and Live Deer
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An evening walkthrough after some good Spring growth, just before the heat and drought set in. We are transitioning from cool-season grasses to warm-season grasses, fruitlets and grafts are growing, and the herbaceous flower layer is starting to come into its own after many of the trees and shrubs have finished flowering. I also get snorted at by cheeky young deer.
Late May Post-Rain Garden Gander
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A video after a needed rain and having recently mowed some paths in the garden. Ninebark and Zizia in flower, new deer cages, and fruit prospects after a late-ish frost.
May 9 Mid-Spring Garden Stroll
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Now that Spring is well advanced many of the fruit trees are done flowering but some other shrubs and herbaceous plants are starting to take up the slack. We've had great rains recently so everything is fresh and green, for now.
Spring Blossoms Before and During Frost
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I knew it was going to get down into the mid-20s F (-3.5C), so I walked around to show some of the flowers at the front of the garden before probable frost damage. The second half is the following morning around 8am, when indeed frost had come. Full damage will be evident in a few days, but I don't have high hopes for most orchard crops this season.
Early Spring Flowers: Serviceberry, Plum, Peach and More
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Video taken 4/16/24 at my edible forest garden in Lawton, MI. Apologies for the wind noise and swearing at times. Serviceberries (Amelanchier sp.) are at peak bloom, Japanese plums are almost done, Prunus americana is in full bloom, edible pears are just starting. A few peaches are in flower and it looks like Apples won't be long now, either. Busy time of year in the garden!
Decisions, Persimmons
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A little walk-and-talk in my main "persimmon patch" in the back 40, showing how I've been adding nurse logs and mulch to the 65 or so young persimmons back there. Also some discussion of grass/groundcover mowing and Nitrogen-fixing shrubs.
Winter Deer Rubs on Young Trees
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A short winter update showing a dozen or more trees that deer have scraped, rubbed, or shredded with their antlers recently. Thankfully most are not my main crop trees, but it's good to have sacrificial or superfluous trees in the mix in any case.
Peak Fall Color? 10/24/23
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A shorter-than-normal video showing what I think may be the peak of Autumn color this year at my garden. Some plants have already peaked, some are still totally green, but this seems about in the middle. Lots of rain since the last video and our first frost 2 nights ago.
Early Fall Colors, Quince and Chestnuts 10/15/23
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A walk through my 3-acre edible forest garden to look at the start of Fall colors and see what's still flowering or ripe for picking-some hazelnuts, Quinces, Chestnuts, Apples, Pears, Chinquapins, Autumn Olives, Nannyberries and more.
Early Autumn Garden with Hazels and Chestnuts
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A walk around my 3 acre edible forest garden site in Lawton, MI, showing some of the late-season flowers (not many this year thanks to deer), some fruits, and some hazelnuts and chestnuts which are bearing.
Bass Ackwards Late Summer Garden w/ Ominous Birds
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A walk through my 3 acre edible forest garden on Sept. 10, 2023, showing ripening hazelnuts, acorns, apples, sumac berries, pears, late peaches, Eleagnus, and more. I walk in the opposite direction than usual just to spice things up a bit.
8/22/23 Edible Forest Garden Ramble-Jamble
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Yet another walk through my 3 acre "food forest" in Lawton, MI. Updates on hazelnuts, apples, pears, native plums, grapes, chestnuts, wildflowers, and more, and a bit of talk about infrastructure and future plans to better accommodate visitors who come to my tours.
Late Winter Forest Garden Walk-What to Prune or Thin
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Late Winter Forest Garden Walk-What to Prune or Thin
Foggy Morning Forest Garden, Mid-August
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Foggy Morning Forest Garden, Mid-August
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I am 230mi south and none of my groundnut are in bloom lol. I really like the cup plant. And the downy sunflower. It would be cool if that moss spreads as the canopy fills in. I seem to remember some sterile selections of black walnut for timber production back in the day. I saw one of those black walnut woodlots from like the ‘70s up close recently. Someone had barked them all with a mower or something and like 49 of 50 had hollow trunks lol.
Two filberts appeared in our front yard in a time I was turning it from lawn into a garden. Filberts are a native here by the Salish Sea, zone 8b. Grey squirrels had moved north to our town and planted them about 10yr ago. Last year a few nuts were seen. This year nuts started appearing on the ground and I am able to pick large nuts as well; they are green with filled shells. Yesterday afternoon I saw ends of stems and leaves shaking over our driveway more than the breeze was moving other leaves. I went out there to meet a grey squirrel above me, so I made soft noises and she(?) came carefully down to the pavement about a meter from me to munch on those nuts. I went back in our house, got some salted in shell peanuts. She allowed my return near her, so I gave(tossed) her 2 peanuts. She took the biggest one into our garden. I've been keeping nuts and some nut bars handy to share with my neighbor squirrels and crows. Before I could return again with a bar a crow family caught onto my availability, so they got treats too. The crows may be near this morning. I hope they learn to say "hello". Met a wild crow in Seattle that used that word. Really got my attention.
Oh man, I live in Windsor and was supposed to see John with a friend that night because I was 4 years in as a hardcore fan but never able to see him perform for one reason or another (mostly because of his notorious extended tour breaks over the years). I was supposed to go across the border with my friend, and after like 2 weeks of impatiently waiting for the show, 4 days before the show he told me he planned on taking this girl he was seeing at the time instead. It goes without saying I was pissed beyond belief and I didn't forgive him for like a year lol All I'm hoping for is a new album/tour next year 🙏
Damn dude it’s lush. Crazy shooting on your chestnuts, really all your trees. You’re growing a lot of bees and whatnot with the nonstop flowers lol. I know they’re green, but the persimmons look like really nice ones, not almost wild local seedlings like mine lol. It looks like you’re really building some momentum. I always think about what’s going on underground too. A lot of the good things happening you can’t see.
Pj, it looks great! The rain has really made a difference. ❤
I'm so happy we've had rain! Happy for you, too!
LOL I feel your excitement for your persimmons! 13 years is a long wait! By that timeline I may not see fruit lmao Cheers buddy! And thanks for the tour! PS As I type, I'm dreaming of success with my pawpaw's. The fruits seem to be staying on this year! Wish me luck! It will be my first taste!
Nice to see some persimmons! I’m seeing them for the first time over here near Ann Arbor. Prok just dropped but the Nikita’s gift hybrid is holding strong
Congratulations on your persimmons! Now just so it’s not a shock, this year or the next the possums and trash pandas will find them and climb out on those thin branches to get them because it’s crack cocaine to them. They will break some maybe off the trunk leaving gaping wounds. The tree will ooze black sap, then next year be absolutely fine. Then after a few more years there will be more than they can eat and you’ll get some. It really upset me until I figured out they were built for the abuse so I’m trying to fast forward you past that. I had only seen mature trees before I grew my own and learned this. It looks great, especially the roses. I might get enough hips for jelly this year. The monarda are really stunners too. Maybe try to score some mountain mint, very tough plants and similar pollinator interest, not as pretty though. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks so much, and thank you for the voice of experience on the persimmons! I won't get my hopes up too much, I'm just crossing my fingers that a lot of my grafts survive and don't get snapped off in the meantime. I am going to keep adding lots of mulch to the persimmons and pawpaw areas in hopes of bolstering growth because I am tired of watching them grow only a few inches per year. I used to have some Mountain Mint but it got killed off when the powerline expansion happened, thanks for the reminder, it was great. I'm surprised I haven't seen it show up in the various native wildflower mixes I've sowed, maybe in a year or two, I know some things take a long time to flower. These native roses have smallish hips with not much "meat" on them, but the rugosas have larger, fleshier hips. I always appreciate you watching and commenting, hope things are growing well for you!
Surprised the honey berry don't suffer from dry soil in the summer. Mine are shallow rooted
Oh, I'm sure they suffer in my usual droughts, they have about 1/10th the growth rate of the weedy/invasive Eurasian bush honeysuckles that grow everywhere here. I have heard someone talk about grafting Haskaps onto those, but I'll believe it when I see it, as I'd always heard that didn't work and I'm sure many have tried. Deer pressure seems to be increasing year on year and I think I'm finally starting to understand that relentless animal browsing is just as much (or more) a limiting factor as drought at this site. More ugly cages going in soon. Even stupid things like Comfrey or garden Sorrel get hammered, in addition to the classics like sunchokes, elderberries, chestnuts, currants, apples, blueberries, etc. Thanks for watching!
One of the changes on our site that has come in with the disturbances I have made - we now have poison ivy, which was not found on the site when we arrived. Apparently I've created favorable conditions for it. Likewise I just noticed bindweed for the first time this year.
Congratulations? :D The birds must eat and spread the seeds of bindweed, because somehow it's gotten established in about 10 different spots on my few acres and I have done virtually no soil disturbance other than digging holes to plant trees.
For the first time this year I'm seeing some real productivity on any of our wild blackcap brambles. Actually pretty psyched about that ;)
Peter, the new canes that have grown this year (and will fruit next year) are thicker and stronger than ever thanks to all the rain this Spring, but as this year's fruit is starting to size up and ripen, we'll see how the current heat/drought impacts the harvest; we may not have enough moisture to get a lot of the later-maturing berries up to a good size. The Serviceberries did well this year because they are so early, but most years those hardly amount to anything, either, due to drought in late Spring.
I enjoy these videos. Thanks!
Thanks so much for watching, I'm glad somebody gets something out of them, sorry they're so long and repetitive, I hope to do some shorter, edited, more topical videos in the future, but these are fast and easy to create.
Dwarf Oaks? I'd like to hear more about them. Species, Cultivar name, etc. I'd like to grow some myself.
There are some fairly big (6’) white fringe trees at our local arboretum. The fruits are pretty chonky. Didn’t try them as I remembered the Oikos catalog describing them as tasting of old gym socks lol. The flowers are super cool, haven’t seen them before, might need to acquire some seeds somehow…..
That's cool, thanks for sharing. You sure you're not thinking of European Highbush Cranberry, that one definitely reeks like foot odor and also tastes horrible. Viburnum opulus, often mis-labeled and sold as "American" Highbush Cranberry (V. trilobum, which IS edible and looks almost exactly the same).
Oh yeah, it’s labeled. I just happened to be there when it was fruiting. But thanks for the heads up on the viburnum, I had been thinking about them. Everyone had them in their landscaping back in the day but I never tried them. We did however pull off handfuls to throw at each other. Mountain ash had better range. Acorns of course were an unacceptable escalation lol.
Read too quickly, it’s the American I was thinking of trying, maybe I will.
Nice
Keep up the great work!
The mulching looks great. I’ve been using 6’ cages made with welded wire (10’ lengths hog- ringed together) which both work and suck lol. Plus $15 a piece. But I accidentally found a deer stymieing technique. So I planted hybrid miscanthus as an experiment. After about 3 years they started to get a respectable number of shoots and something completely unexpected happened, it hid some Kentucky wisteria that the deer had eaten down to nothing year after year and this spring I have a couple dozen flowers. I think that spacing them like 3-4’ apart, waiting a couple years, then putting seedlings in between might be a cheat code for deer predation. It’s like the grass blinds them to the things they eat. Of course I’m basing this theory on damned little evidence lol. Maple River Farms is where I ordered the miscanthus.
Thank you for the video. I just joined an Elderberry Group on FB and someone in your area is looking for cuttings so I sent her to your channel here. I don't know if you have Sambucus? Probably what don't you have? The Serviceberry at the beginning is gorgeous. I'll look more into Siberian Pea Shrub, it is mostly for nitrogen fixer? Oh and I will look up Nannyberry. The deer topiary is cute. Taking it all in stride. Your grafting work looks great, inspiration. I like your thoughts on not owning land.
chuckle. When we were last out, those nettles were maybe six inches tall?
The rain this spring has been pretty regular, allowing me to plant many things and let the rain water them in.
You will never hear me complaining about too much rain (unless we get "biblical" amounts), as it goes right through my sand and is long-gone 2 days later. The growth on a few things, like the nettles, is shocking, I rarely see any growth that approaches rampancy on my site.
Your Silphium has grown like crazy since i was there the other day.
Misleading video image
How, those are the actual nuts from these same bushes, sorted by plant.
Super cool thumbnail but what a shitty way to get it. We got into the 20’s but still have some cherries, I hope you haven’t lost too much. I swear we’re like six weeks early, autumn olives are already done flowering. Nuts.
Wow! I think a lot of folks way south of me have been frosted recently, hate when that happens, especially for folks who aren't used to it. At my garden I expect frost until at least mid-May, and I've had it at the very end of May a few times. I am not attached to anything particular, though I would really love to get persimmons and pawpaws one of these decades. Since I am a total pessimist, to the point of nihilism, nothing really surprises me as the climate system unravels. I expect tornadoes, softball-size hail, a year's worth of rain in 24 hours, or wildfire to visit any year now.
Yeah me too. I’m planting more hazels, and starting diploid(?) groundnut from seed. I always think about the impact of the Black Death and how if you survived it life became pretty alright, so I kind of want to try and outlast the herd if things really go to shit. I want to start really messing with dry land grains, millet, sorghum, barley, and whatnot.
Gosh darn it. :(
Thank you for the video and smells. Love your trees so beautiful. The weather will only be getting weirder. Must figure something out. Does your township allow rainwater collection? Wow the quince was stunning in the color and frost damage. So sorry for the losses. I have two bareroot Japanese heartnuts to plant and I'm making dead hedges for windbreaks. The wind is relentless here, so damaging. I am surprised to find so many trees and shrubs on the list for juglone tolerance. Are you planning a video later in the season on harvesting the hazelnuts and others, and maybe post a few recipes and suggestions for storage where applicable? Is it true that giving credit to the creator of the recipe is the proper way to make it legal and not intellectual infringement?
thanks for the comments! Yes, we are allowed to collect rainwater here, and I do water this whole site via collected rainwater (by hand, very low-tech). If you have a lot of wind, establishing windbreaks will really help your other plants grow faster, dead hedges sound like a great and fast way to do that, though you may have to add to them every year as they sink, from my experience. I will keep making some videos throughout the season, they don't take very long since there's no editing involved. I would like to do shorter, more topical videos in the future. I have one video about my hazelnuts and harvesting, but none about recipes, I have mostly eaten them raw. I'm not sure about the legalities of recipe borrowing, I don't think most recipes are copyrighted, as long as you are not copying verbatim and claiming it as your original work.
Beautiful orchard!
Loving how you think about planting enough for yourself and wildlife
Greetings fellow Michigander, I am planning hedges after a perimeter farm fence is installed, so a few years to go. Are you thinking of offering young trees for sale of your favorites?
Hy Lynn, I typically grow some seedlings from my best plants, yes. I originally sourced a lot of my plants from my local Conservation District sales, and later ordered from Forest Ag Enterprises (Mark Shepard's nursery division) for 4-5 years, and also sourced some from Oikos (now retired). Recently I got a few clonal selections or seedlings of great plants from Z's Nutty Ridge. This Spring I don't have any seedlings ready to hand off because unfortunately chipmunks discovered my nursery last year and destroyed almost every nut tree/shrub I had planted before I could figure out what was happening; this year I am going to cage the seedlings on top to prevent this (very annoying!). You are welcome to visit sometime if you are in the area, I'm about 20 minutes west of Kalamazoo.
Love your mixed plantings
Your garden always amazes me! I look forward to more tours this year
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Looking good. My random thoughts follow. Amelanchier: for whatever reason commercial landscapers here have used tons of saskatoons. They are bulletproof which is really surprising since I think of them as a Pacific Northwest rainforest species. Drought tolerant, late flowering and short enough to pick most of them. If you can beat the birds. Flowering quince: I’ve been leaving things that seldom or never fruit like quince (fireblight) or Nanking cherry (frozen out most years) to feed bees that wake up too early almost every year now. Also saw Baltimore orioles munching the flowers for the nectar which was awesome. Sea buckthorn: grew buffalo berry at a previous home which I think but am far from certain is related. Absolutely grew like weeds, maybe a good substitute? Oh saskatoon seed is balky, only a small part germinate the first year. Like last time I planted 100 seeds, got 9 seedlings. But if you get cuttings they start fruiting at like a foot tall lol.
Thanks for your comments! I am indifferent about Nanking Cherries, they were impressive in the first few years of this garden but now seem to decline and die after a short time. I got some of the white-fruited selections to try this last year, we'll see how those do, but overall I am not that enthused about Nankings anymore. I had about a dozen Buffaloberry bushes planted early on, I never had a single fruit and the last twig of the last surviving plant died a year or two ago-not sure what they hate about my site, I saw them thriving in very poor soil in the Dakotas. I also saw some nice ones at a friend's garden in Vermont, where they also have a thriving Seaberry orchard. Mine is a garden of failures and false starts, it's amazing that anything is still alive.
I wondered, that’s not the only thing that doesn’t grow well for you that does for me and vice versa. Bizarrely it looks like I’ll get some nankings this year despite a night in the 20’s. I fell in love with them in Korea, most farmers around us kept one in the yard and it was the foliage as much as anything that impressed me, thick, lush, green. They were never more than 3’ tall so I don’t know if they were a cultivar or if they pruned the hell out of them. Not fugly like here. There’s one young one that got munched on, they usually don’t, I’m curious to see what it will do.
~ it looks great. I love the new entrance and the paths that you are doing! Keep up the great work Peach!~
Off to a great start! Have a wonderful season. 🌳
I want to see a video of your garden and your raccoon(s) this season. Pleease? :D
@@pjchmiel LOL -- I don't feed the raccoons anymore, haven't for some time. I think they're better off fending for themselves. As for the garden, I've told you before, it's just a tiny little yard with nothing to showcase. 😛
I know you posted this 2 years ago but I have a question. Have you come to a truce with power company? I have a right of way on my land that was mauled by their uneducated forestry division. Their “foresters” could not identify basic species or understand that shrubs are in fact shrubs. I raised a colossal stink with them so my property shows up on their maps as a property that needs a police escort. That was the solution offered by them to make sure they made contact with me before doing anything.
So far, so good, but that's no guarantee that I won't have problems with them in the future. My property is registered with DriftWatch and posted as no-spray at both entrances to their Right of Way, but that doesn't mean that some idiot crew may not show up and grind everything to smithereens some morning.
@@pjchmielIron T-posts, driven down so only a foot is above ground, spaced every 4 feet in a double row. Please don't do anything to get yourself in trouble. I'm already doing enough for both of us.
Dude I have been a piss-poor subscriber recently, preoccupied. But I’m wondering how premature your spring is. Apricots, non-native cherries always get fooled, but today even the goose plums are going full blast (swarming with bees and even a fritillary!), a month early. Naturally freezing temps in the forecast later this week. How goes it there?
We were running 3-4 weeks ahead of schedule earlier in March, but then it got cold again and back to relatively "normal," which held everything in a kind of stasis until a few days ago, so now we're only somewhat ahead. The only things blooming so far at my place, in order, are: Cornus mas, daffodils, willows, silver maples, Forsythia, and Nanking Cherries. Other Prunus are still holding off. Usually P. mume, Japanese apricot is one of the first, but nothing on those yet. We did have temps down to the mid-teens on 3/21, they say the peach crop here may be froze-out, we'll see what happens with the other tree fruits. Other people in MI had apricots blooming already but mine all died years ago and I'm not going to bother trying yet again, I got the point.
Dude I have been a piss-poor subscriber recently, preoccupied. But I’m wondering how premature your spring is. Apricots, non-native cherries always get fooled, but today even the goose plums are going full blast (swarming with bees and even a fritillary!), a month early. Naturally freezing temps in the forecast later this week. How goes it there?
Lol yeah, I leave my lone survivor, figure it’s early nectar for the bees, but I’m done with apricots too. Hell even if it ever fruits I’m sure the curculios would shred them.
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Where and when was this PJ?
The recording was done in January 2008 when he was in Lexington, KY for an awards banquet, IIRC. I was living in Louisville at the time and drove over to meet him at his hotel.
I hope you end up with good tasting persimmons. When I first arrived at the property I now own there was a persimmon tree, I think a fuyu variety loaded with fruit. I let the fruit get fully ripe and for whatever reason the tomato/apple hardness fruit was not pleasant to eat. I had tried a fuyu type persimmon before at a property that I was considering buying, but not for the persimmons which I wasn’t impressed with. I have tried a different variety persimmon, hachiya jelly like when ripe. That was a different story. I liked that fruit and I would consider buying the tree but I already have many fruit trees already. Though perhaps predator birds wouldn’t be too much of a problem as the fuyu tree fruit wasn’t attacked too badly by birds. Most of the fruit trees where I live require nets to protect from birds. I know you grow hazelnuts and the 4 hazelnut trees seem to be liking the less than ideal soil. One of the four different varieties seems to be growing exponentially compared to the other 3. Because of the warming climate I only intend to grow 4 hazelnut trees, even though Bridgetown where I live experiences the coldest winter temperatures in my state of Western Australia. And because of the warming climate I’ve planted macadamia trees which can only prosper in a warmer climate, though 106F/41C forecast for Bridgetown tomorrow is a fair bit hotter than macadamia trees like it.
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I'm surprised there's not more recent comments but stands out to me. Please upgrade me to this video. After having launched up before is at 1 hour and 15 minutes, About biodisal
I really like Roger but I don't remember him being on Gold Rush episodes all that much! Can someone tell me what episodes?
I'm afraid you've lost me, is that a television show? If so, it must be an actor with the same name; this Roger was never on any shows that I'm aware of, he was a truck driver.
Lovely to see the 🇺🇸 chest nut tree ❤
Feel it's a shame to let that dark apple go to waste. Bet it would make great jelly. :)
Quince I pick when it's fully yellow. You can leave it on, but if you are going to risk deer damage, just pick 'em. I like setting them around the house as they smell great while they're softening.
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What is your preferred method of cooking the chestnuts? We have a few mature trees with plenty of production, but I tried baking to roast last year and they were disappointing. Really unhappy stomach afterwards so I'm not sure I cooked them long enough.
I end up boiling them or steaming them more often than roasting, but when I roast, it's usually in a cast-iron pan on the stovetop rather than in the oven. If I boil I often cut them in half first, when I steam or roast I just cut "X"s into the shell with the tip of a knife for small-medium sized nuts. Last year I ate some large European/Japanese hybrid nuts for the first time, and with those I tried cutting the whole hilium end off and roasting, that seemed to work pretty well. I have never had gastric distress from chestnuts, I hope you can find a way to cook yours so that they taste good. The raw nuts are edible too, but they usually don't have much sweetness, and the texture is crisp like a carrot, with a slightly "green" flavor. I don't eat many of them w/o cooking but some people love them that way. Also, not to insult your intelligence, but just confirming that your trees are Castanea species and not Aesculus, often called horse-chestnuts or buckeyes, which look very similar and are also borne in a spiky bur, but are not considered edible. This happens so often that it's worth putting that out there, even if it's not the case with your trees. Thanks for watching!
@@pjchmiel Thanks for the reply, they certainly are castanea, complete with blight and all. The trees are resilient and seem to be dealing with the blight over some years now with partial crown dieback. The chestnuts just started dropping and it's a good year for them. I'll try boiling or steaming some this week.