Simple way to germinate horse chestnut conkers to grow more trees! скачать в хорошем качестве

Simple way to germinate horse chestnut conkers to grow more trees!

We have a wonderful old horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) that makes loads of seeds called ‘conkers’. We want to grow these conkers so that we can have lots more horse chestnut trees. This year we are cold stratifying the conkers in an unheated outbuilding to protect them from frost. The cold during the winter will encourage them to sprout in the spring. They will also need protection from mice and to keep the moisture content right. So, we are cold stratifying them in a tumble dryer drum in a shed. We are trying to be as self-sufficient and off grid as possible on our smallholding, our English homestead, with a little help from Hazel, our pup.