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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 15:40:24 GMT 1
We took Sam on a different route today, found loads of nut trees at side of lane.
Some tress are Acorn, can we eat them?
Other trees are conker or chestnut, how do you tell the difference?
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Post by flowergrader on Sept 28, 2011 16:54:03 GMT 1
Do not eat acorn, feed them to the pigs.
Do not eat horse chesnut.
Eat sweet chesnut, have curly coating on the out side and usually have three or frou fruits inside
I think
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Post by Ali on Sept 28, 2011 18:31:24 GMT 1
I'm with flowergrader. Acorns can cause stomach cramps in Sam and certainly toxic in larger amounts to horses and other animals. Pigs are fine with them. The way I'd describe how to spot a horse chestnut from a sweet chestnut is firstly the blossom. The horse chestnut has swinging grape like blossom and the sweet chesnut more like lambs tails. Again, am with FG, the sweet chestnuts tend to be divided inside their prickly shell. Just went outside to take pic of a sweet chesnut (very edible) on the floor from our tree (btw sweet chesnuts are more common here than horse - horse are used as ornamentals - sweet grow wild everywhere) Here's the pic (sorry no windy tekky drawing tho )
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Post by Pasha on Sept 28, 2011 19:01:52 GMT 1
Not sure if I would want to eat this?? mmmmm Seen too many alien type films etc-- And ali-- how big is this thing and is it moving inside? ? ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by <-Rinky-Dink-> on Sept 28, 2011 19:48:15 GMT 1
I tried to downoad photos of horsechestnuts, but they wouldn't copy, tried to copy the link and that wouldn't copy either! Sooo suggest that you Google Horse Chestnut photo's ... there is a distinct difference between the look of the outer shells between horse chestnuts and sweet chestnuts.
Sweet chestnuts are delicious roasted .. pierce the brown shell with a fork and roast over a fire (or even in the oven) for a few minutes. Be careful though ... if you roast them too long they will explode!!! Take the shell off and sprinkle lightly with salt ... yummy!!!!!!!
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Sept 28, 2011 20:34:15 GMT 1
Everyone knows what conkers look like, and look at the leaves of the tree as well - use google for ID.
Ali's photo is good and you know that a conker doesn'tlook like that. There's only one conker in the shell but 3 in a chataigne shell - one big and two little. Marrons have bigger nuts but basically all sweet chestnuts.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 20:56:02 GMT 1
Going harvesting tomorrow, for chestnuts, won't bother with the acorns as we don't have any pigs, the OH says she has one but I havn't seen it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 21:44:05 GMT 1
Most of the chestnuts we collected ,the past two years,had buggy things in them,little maggots that chewed their ways out before we could eat them,luckily I suppose!!
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Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2011 22:15:29 GMT 1
Going harvesting tomorrow, for chestnuts, won't bother with the acorns as we don't have any pigs, the OH says she has one but I havn't seen it. Gotta say ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D no way !!
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Sept 29, 2011 7:52:09 GMT 1
Most of the chestnuts we collected ,the past two years,had buggy things in them,little maggots that chewed their ways out before we could eat them,luckily I suppose!! Yeah same here - quite tempted just to buy some supermarket marrons instead. Damn things are so hard to peel and it is so time consuming. They are just starting to drop but I don't have time to do any before going away so will just use my last tub of last year's frozen chestnuts for xmas stuffing!
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