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Chestnut (Sweet chestnut)

sativa

Chestnut (Sweet chestnut), sativa

Family:

Origin:

Minor Asia

Period of flowering:

May, June

Color of the flowers:

cream

Exhibition:

sun

Type of ground:

rich person in humus, sandy, noncalcareous

Acidity of the ground:

neutral, acid

Moisture of the ground:

normal

Use:

orchard, orchard

Height:

up to

Type of plant:

Type of vegetation:

long-lived

Type of foliage:

null and void

Rusticity:

rustic

Plantation, repotting:

autumn

Method of multiplication:

sowing, grafting

Cut:

-

Interesting species, varieties:

The kind understands a dozen species
You will find in the trade of the varieties of the sweet chestnut type or chestnut
Note that there exist more decorative varieties with the mixed foliage

Diseases and harmful insects:

the disease of ink, the canker, the , the of sweet chestnuts

Toxicity:

the fruit is edible, not to confuse with horse chestnut

Use the leaves which fall to the autumn to carry out good mulching.

You can bring manure to your chestnut every year, it will be able to appreciate and will return it to you by a good harvest.

In a small garden, cut your chestnut in (cf photograph), while cutting the main branches so that it does not push too high, but so that it is spread out rather.

Which is the difference between chestnut and sweet chestnut?

The chestnut is a fruit with a seed, whereas the sweet chestnut can have two or three of them. Both come from the same shaft but one should not confuse chestnut with horse chestnut which does not eat itself.

When and how to graft a chestnut?

Use a French chestnut as understock and practice a Clerc's Office in slit, a Clerc's Office in incrustation, a Clerc's Office at the English in April or September, or a shield-graft in August.

Did you know?

  • The chestnut was formerly called the breadfruit tree because the sweet chestnut is usually consumed like vegetable.

  • France produces more than 06000 tons of sweet chestnuts a year.

  • The chestnut can live up to thousand years!
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