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Likely you came from there already. But, if not, then you can go there are search #chestnutwar and see all the posts from the first year of battle in 2018. And the ongoing second year of the campaign. This year I am going to try a serious stab at roasting these and the incorporating into something. Not the soup the neighbors make (Which per my wife's conversation with the old ladies I did not manage to shoo off uses chicken and green vegetables), but something baked. A dish where I can incorporate the flavor of these prickly boys and muddle it with sugar and butter.
I am going to totally win this war. Or die trying. Or move out because its a rental. Or the tree will fade because it too seems to be succumbing to the chestnut blight. Apparently Chinese Chestnuts are resistant but not immune and I noticed more dead branches and papery shelves of fungi growing on them. Whole tertiary branches have fallen and there is an open gap in the lovely dome crown of the tree where a larger branch must have fallen before me moved in.
This may not be blight, but its something and in maybe 5 to 7 years there may not be a tree to fight over. Which is no less of a bummer because of how hackneyed it sounds. War, what is it even good for? Absolutely nothing.
I am going to totally win this war. Or die trying. Or move out because its a rental. Or the tree will fade because it too seems to be succumbing to the chestnut blight. Apparently Chinese Chestnuts are resistant but not immune and I noticed more dead branches and papery shelves of fungi growing on them. Whole tertiary branches have fallen and there is an open gap in the lovely dome crown of the tree where a larger branch must have fallen before me moved in.
This may not be blight, but its something and in maybe 5 to 7 years there may not be a tree to fight over. Which is no less of a bummer because of how hackneyed it sounds. War, what is it even good for? Absolutely nothing.
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