You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to planting since chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) appreciate a somewhat acidic ...
JESSUP, Md. (AP) - Maryland inmates are growing American chestnut seedlings for a group hoping to restore the once dominant tree. The American chestnut was known as the "redwood of the East" before a ...
It was the tree of choice in the eastern United States. Whole communities depended upon it. Naturalists swooned over its majesty. Farmers built their barns and fences from it. Cabinetmakers relished ...