Concerning the large acorn crop and a way to reduce it, I am afraid I don’t have a very sympathetic solution for that either. Live oak acorns don’t produce many new trees in a mature landscape ...

The acorns should be covered with 1-2 inches of firm soil and spaced 8-14 inches apart if sown directly in the ground. Covering them with mulch will help retain the moisture for germination.

If you live beneath a mature oak tree, you hear the whack, whack, whack-- like shrapnel hitting your patio table and car roof.. Acorns, nature's little bombs, are falling. The nuts litter your ...

Acorns, such as this sample from an interior live oak, should be planted directly in the soil where the tree is to be grown. Special to The Tribune Q. Many oak trees sprout on my property. Can I ...

And a mature live oak can put out a lot of acorns, which is fine if you happen to have a lot of deer or squirrels or feral pigs around. Oak is pretty tough to begin with, but live oak wood is ...

The white oak group, which includes the live oak and post oak, produces acorns annually. The acorns of the red oak group, which includes the Shumard red oak and pin oak, take two years to mature ...

This year, it is mainly red and live oak tree acorns. Besides the general cycle they track, the phenomenon is a bit of a mystery. However, a lot of times in the case of nature, the trail of acorns ...

Most of us are familiar with the mythology around oak trees. They are considered oracular beings in many traditions. The Druids considered them to be sacred, the Greeks associated oaks with Zeus).