Chestnut may be useful as organic / zero chemical vineyard post. Our experience at Silverwood is they sucker badly and so there’s a need for ongoing silviculture, including form pruning. Suckers are best removed in summer, to reduce regrowth/adventitious shoots. On a different site, we have a useful single row shelter belt, pruned with hedge […]
An initiative of Central Canterbury Farm Forestry
Chestnut
Silverwood has about 200 hundred oak and chestnut trees that are about 10 years old. Even now, as this tree shows there’s a need to keep the loppers handy – to remove the odd branch that will reduce the value of the final log. Note that if you don’t want lots of adventitious shoots – […]
A photo showing the very rapid regrowth on at least one of the trees. Multiple stems will / do require thinning.