Facebook has been sending me an ad about Chestnut trees being great for deer... they're running a special this weekend.... worth buying any? Do the deer truly hit them harder than Oaks?
hybrids... supposedly 3-5 years and fruit er nutsChinese variety? The American chestnut has a problem reaching maturity without dying. I've heard the Chinese is a little better. Dunstin? I think it is a mutt of the two maybe. Not real sure about it. Worth a little research before going all in.
My chestnuts were planted in the 50s when there were no deer around here.It depends where they are planted and in my opinion when you introduce a new species into the environment it takes a while to get them into the food routine.
Give it time. The deer are still getting used to them.My chestnuts were planted in the 50s when there were no deer around here.
If I had to choose, I would put in the English Oak. It starts dropping nuts in a few years, produces annually, seldom frosts out and drops significantly more nuts with less tannin like a white oak. The deer stand under them beginning in August and just look up in anticipation for them to fall.Facebook has been sending me an ad about Chestnut trees being great for deer... they're running a special this weekend.... worth buying any? Do the deer truly hit them harder than Oaks?
The balls split apart as the chestnuts ripen prior to falling.How would the deer get them out of the spikey balls. My grandfather had some in Ms and I never saw the deer mess with them. Now his persimmon trees right next to the house got hammered on a nightly basis. You couldn't hardly find deer poop in the woods without persimmon seeds in it
The balls split apart as the chestnuts ripen prior to falling.
Neighbor had some where i grew up, some would some wouldn't. My daughter's softball team collected them from a local orchard (?) as a fundraiser. Easily 3/4 or more were opened up on the ground.Ours never did enough for the nuts to fall out. We would always have to step on the spike balls with both feet and then kind of slide our feet apart to open them.