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.

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 ...

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 ...

"The can smell the acorn right in the ground." Reporter Hunter Ingram can be reached at 910-343-2327 or [email protected]. Live Oak/Quercus virginiana ...

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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 ...

"Acorn on peduncles 1/4-4 in. long, in clusters of 3-5; nut ellipsoid-obovoid, ... On the Edwards Plateau, the live oak populations are small trees forming rhizomatous copses ...

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).

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 ...