Hello! I am a retired air traffic controller, 70yrs old and we live in the Azores Islands, a 9 Island Archipelago between Europe and USA, on the middle of the...
Usually we do not plant the Chestnut trees. We pick spontaneous born plants, under the Chestnut trees, relocate them and later on, 2 to 3 years old, we...
... I need to plant them, as there are none now. My family, over the last 300 years, managed to cut *every* red oak and sweet chestnut in our woods. My Dad...
Good Morning Jocelyn: The humidity level here in the Azores Islands is very high. All our chestnuts must be consumed or used within a month. After that time...
Which island? I visited the Azores some years ago and came back with an unusual guitar. (No, not made of chestnut, but I do have a chestnut psaltery.) ... ...
Ah! That was one of the islands I visited. In the botanical gardens in Angra do Heroismo, I found many old friends, including some I would not have expected...
I'm not a pioneer. I'm an apprentice with 20 years of a very interesting "traditional experience", orally transmitted by local chestnut/and other fruits...
Vitor, I would think the relative isolation of the Azores plop in mid-Atlantic would be a factor too. Some French botanist discovered a blight that fed on the...
Thank you for the information. I'll crosscheck it with the local University botanists involved with the Chestnut Trees. The Azores Chestnut production is just...
Oh, dear! Does that mean that if we succeed in reestablishing the American chestnut we will then have to worry about Cydia splendana? That the plague affects...
For three or more years that the Portuguese Universities, namely Minho, Madeira Islands and Azores Islands, among other International Universities, I think,...
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