There are three specific trees and a number of 'wild' ones.

They mostly came from my initial sowing of seeds in the far north west. 1 Noting that rodents where eating them I planted one elsewhere with protection. That is now a 23' tree producing many nuts but only a few of any use.

2 One I planted on Kaia's grave, and 3 one that Gavin grew from other seed was planted on my dad's grave this year: the walnut having died.

There are also a few that have sprung up, maybe from squirrels burying some.

2025

Harvest

Interesting:~ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/oct/26/how-to-make-chestnut-liqueur
October 31st Made a right mess of the crop. I kept a few kilos in a plastic tub and most of them wither rotted or became infested with some creatures, there were lots of eggs in many. Altogether I haven't got 800g from 4Kg ie.20% and after checking those many are not edible. It seems as when left there is a turn where they go hard and even cooking doesn't help in some cases. Generally difficult to remove the inner skins, so really a 90% plus failure on my part. ✘

October 30th After a few messy baking runs I may go by the following: Italian Guide
However with the ones sitting by the stove for the last couple of weeks are very dry so I have just removed the outer skin after scoring with a Stanley Knife with about four mm of blade protruding.

October 24th Collected another 500g grams mostly from the far trees. The fallen leaves have covered a lot, so this is a bit late. Could do with clearing around the far trees.

October 9th Collected some 3Kg under the 'main' tree and another 500g grams on the 7th from another tree.

• I have removed the peel from some now, 230g and they look fine, but may soak and rub them down tomorrow, then dry and store �

  

  Very easy to peel when 'fresh'

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2023 October 20th Today I scavenged the ground under the 'main' tree and collected some >1.5Kg : will see what weight that is when they have dried for 2 or 3 weeks. Later further a further <1.5Kg from trees to the west. There are three trees two of which I can see I planted/sowed the seeds as there are plastic tubes attached to them which were to protect the seeds and saplings from rodents and deer etc.