Acorns
In all my years I have never seen as many acorns as this year. Have planted 100 or so in a small nursery and hopefully ready as seedlings if not next spring the year after. Whilst the do gooders still fly to talking shops around the world we can do our little bit by planting a few acorns ourselves. Then we will have done collectively more than the talkers have.
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All the fruit is in abundance this year, the last time I saw sloes hanging down in heavy almost bunches was around 7yrs ago-Sloe Gin will be big next year, oh & Sloe Vodka/Whisky/Rum. The Victoria plums where the same👍🏻
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The pigs will be able to "pig out" in the New Forest then.
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We have also had a heavy crop of acorns over here as there a lot of oak trees around and a heavy crop of sloes, have made 2 bottles of sloe gin and also looking after another 4 bottles from friends of our who are over in the UK at present so it looks bad with 6 bottles lined up.
Tried to post about 10 minutes ago and nothing happened and the usual internal error came up so will try again.
Great Autumn colours about this year.
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Not just acorns but Sweet and Horse Chestnuts the footpathe through our ancient woods here are thicly carpeted with all three,, now most are now down , we can put our Tin hats away for another year
Chris Packam was saying this morning about the acorns ,the wildlife that feed on the "fruits of the forest" are motre dificult to film this year as they have such an abundance to feed on they are not interested in what is available from Autumn Watch film crews
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Most of us should be ok ED an Oak seedling can produce its own fruit around 20 years old👍🏻😊
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Another acorn fan here!
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Fish, contact Comisiwn coedwigaeth Cymru start a dialogue with them👍🏻. CT folk can’t really do much🤷🏻♂️
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We have an oak tree on the edge of our garden. I think it must be eighty years old (a foot around the girth for every ten years?) I've never seen it set proper acorns as the whole tree has gall wasp.
Luckily we have healthy Ash around here and the other Oaks are OK.
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The trees in our woods and the remains in what was the estate of Digswell House just down the road from us (still there ,now extended and made into expensive houses even for our area )are all more than 250 yrs old and no one can ever remember being so much "fruit"produced as this year
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Yes you can just plat a few acorns in a corner and transplant the young trees in due course. Like all "environmentalist's" they do a lot of huffing/puffing and talking but dont do anything practical. Oh yes blame farmers for everything. Now is an opportunity for doing a little. Healthy ash will no doubt succumb over the next few years unfortunately.
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Whenever we are out and about at significant places such as stately homes I look for a few acorns and then grow them on in pots at home. Where I’m going to put them all I don’t know.
Many years ago we had some woodland which had a few oaks on it. My dad needed some oak and had one of the trees cut down and converted but my sister managed to find an acorn from it. She grew this on and eventually it produced acorns of its own. One of these she grew on in a pot which she gave to me. This is now about 15 feet high and had a massive crop of its own acorns this year. The slightly comical thing about this is that I have in my garden some of the seasoned oak that my dad had converted all those years ago so that is the grandparent of my ‘new’ tree.
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How much is paid to reinstate hedges and for set aside also is it the two metres? edges of fields for wildlife conservation
acorns are sown in pots every year in this area and when saplings big enough are planted in our ancient woodlands to with other broadleaf saplings make them more secure for future generations(all protected from the Deer (three breeds) and others who would love to eat them
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Also beware your local council - as soon as a sapling has a girth of 5 cm or more they will slap a tree preservation order (TPO) on it.
Fortunately, my local busybodies sent such a notice to me, in error, relating to a tree which was in a neighbours garden. I now assiduously uproot any oak seedlings in case they get a TPO on them.
It is my choice what grows in my garden, not that of the local council !
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According to the web, an oak is around 50 before it produces its own acorns
... https://www.tigtagworld.co.uk/film/life-cycle-of-an-oak-tree-PRM00013/#:~:text=Most%20oak%20trees%20won't,matures%20into%20a%20majestic%20adult.0 -
My mistake ED, I didn’t think of checking on line I remembered the oak I planted in my garden taking 20 years before it produced acorns. I’m afraid in my world real life trumps t’internet
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Fish, a little snippet for you-the common oak is also known as the English oak, & the Pedunculate oak. The Sessile oak is also known as the Cornish oak & the Irish oak. The Sessile oak has been adopted as the national Tree of Wales👍🏻
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This can’t be true. I know our tree is only about 15 years old and has had acorns for at least the last four years. Admittedly there have been many more this year than previously and last year there was almost none. I’m afraid the internet is wrong again. I don’t think our tree is anything special.
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Err, that’ll be the folk who’ve grown them in real life ED like johnm20 & me👍🏻, always listen to real life experience & not read things, you are most welcome👍🏻😊
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