how to defend chestnuts
October 3, 2009
This is how I like to protect my chestnuts. Cage the trees.
Protecting the nuts, a little more challenging.
Top layer, drying rack, supplemented by broom handle.
Second layer, additional chestnuts drying on a cookie sheet.
Ground floor, mousetraps, baited with peanut butter.
Success?
living in the woods and making stuff 
October 3, 2009 at 12:43 am
i sure hope there is success!
October 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Or you could bait the traps with chestnut meal mixed with a little oil…if it’s chestnuts the critters are after…
October 3, 2009 at 11:13 pm
They do like peanut butter…
October 4, 2009 at 5:32 am
I use peanut butter and cornmeal if it comes to “that” too. Your chestnut ravioli sound fantastic. I imagine them with a lightly sweet, white chocolate cream sauce.
October 10, 2009 at 1:21 pm
What mice like best is Nutella (but not too much or it will make them sick). Do you catch them in Have-a-Heart traps, Tor-Tor?
I liked the chestnuts you gave me SO much! (They were protected for a few days in the zipper pocket of my down coat, though I suppose enterprising mice could have found them there—up onto the shelf, down onto the hanger, and into the coat. . .)
October 10, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I am glad you (and not the mice) enjoyed the pocketful of chestnuts! Thanks for the mouse bait tip too! I am still considering a cat, which could solve the problem too…