Sowing chestnut

It has several names: edible, noble (Castanea savita), also called sowing - any of the subspecies is included in the beech family.

Chestnut is a fairly large tree with falling leaves. On average, the height of such a tree reaches 35-40 m in height. It has a powerful, almost straight trunk, about 2 meters in diameter. The bark of the tree is dark brown, along which cracks are located. The branches are spread widely, which makes the tree large and voluminous.

Chestnut leaves are oblong in shape, with jagged edges. The length of the leaf is 25 cm, and the width is 10 cm. Painted in dark green, bloom by April.

Chestnut is a flowering tree. Flowering usually occurs in June. The flowers are small, spike-shaped.

The chestnut fruit is a nut, which is placed in a spherical shell with spines. When the ripening of the nut is completely completed, the shell (shell) cracks. Chestnut contains seeds of a cream or white color, they have a sweet taste, loose and fatty in composition, they can be eaten. The chestnut begins to bear fruit in October, or early November, when foliage begins to fall from the tree.

It is possible to propagate a culture by planting seeds, cuttings. The culture is pollinated with the help of insects, bees, and also with the help of the wind.

The tree begins to bear fruit at 3-6 years of age. The older the chestnut, the more fruit it bears. Upon reaching 40 years of age, it is possible to harvest about 70 kg of the crop from the chestnut.

The chestnut tree lives for a long time. In rare exceptional cases, it can live up to 1000 years. In the Caucasus, there are chestnut trees that have lived for 500 years.
Europe (southeastern part), the peninsula of Asia Minor - are considered the birthplace of culture. Now the chestnut grows in Ukraine, in Dagestan. The Caucasus and Moldova also sheltered the chestnut on their lands. Chestnut is also found in the south of Crimea.

Edible chestnut grows well in soil where there is no lime, loves warmth and moisture. Very hard to tolerate drought.

The use of chestnut nuts and its composition

Chestnut nuts are used in full swing as a food product. They can be eaten both raw and cooked in any way - fry, bake, boil. It all depends on the flight of the cook's imagination. Nuts are also added to baked goods and confectionery. Dry ground seeds can be used to bake bread. Also, the seeds can be used to make coffee, you can also get alcohol from them.

Chestnut is rich in vitamins, as well as macro and microelements such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, zinc, manganese, copper, phosphorus and iron. The nut also contains ash, water, cholesterol.