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I am with you 100% ..... each fall i go around to a few huge Chinese chestnut trees here in town and gather what I can and roast them.Such a great sweet flavor.It's a shame that many of the foraged ones are "duds," you can't tell how long they've been on the ground and many are rotten.
Thanks for posting this and reminding me to go check the trees. It looks like here they JUST started dropping. I think my problem in the past is that I waited too late in the season. By that point the ground is littered with nuts and you end up getting many nuts that have been sitting there for a long time. I probably just picked up 15 pounds of fresh chestnuts in about 10 minutes!One tree has decidedly bigger nuts than the other. I’ll stick with it.
Yes the trees are also in public areas, so people COULD know about them if they care. But I’ve never seen anyone pay them any attention and as I said the mast builds up big time.