Day 356: For years now, I've been saying I'd collect Horse Chestnuts in the fall to see if I could get a few to sprout, but I never seemed to be around a Horse Chestnut tree on a timely basis. Today, I remedied that. The proverbial "spreading chestnut tree" stands at the Community Center adjacend to Gust Backstrom Park in Morton. It is still heavily laden, but there were plenty on the ground. Strangely, they were all rather small as Horse Chestnuts go, so I'm hoping they're not a sterile variety. In any event, I came home with my pocket full of peeled ones ready to put in the ground, and I'll probably make at least one more collecting run in a couple of weeks.
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