What can I do with the chestnuts I have collected?
Only chestnuts or chestnuts are edible. Horse chestnuts are inedible to poisonous. However, these fruits are ideal for decoration purposes and for handicrafts. Extracts from the horse chestnut seeds are often used in various herbal medicines. The horse chestnuts are also popular as animal feed, for example for feeding wild animals in winter. Just ask your responsible forester.
The essentials in brief:
- Harvest from September to early November
- Chestnuts often cannot be stored for long
- Horse chestnuts inedible, but interesting as a remedy
- Horse chestnuts are popular as (wild) animal feed
Tips
Chestnuts have a shell with many fine spines, horse chestnut shells have significantly fewer and short spines.
