I will probably not save any for planting.
I learned that this is actually an invasive species. The native variety is far less productive and does not taste as good. That means it's our civic duty to eat as many as we can in order to reduce the spread of invasive species. Twist my arm.
This might be the first time that an invasive species helped the local ecology. The bears love them, too. Likewise many other critters. What had been a famine is now a feast.
I don't need to worry much about planting them. The birds to that. On windshields, sidewalks, pedestrians, and on every square inch of viable soil. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven . . . but from the south end of northbound birds.
- A