“Planting nuts requires a vision for a future that goes beyond one’s mortal reach.” — Bernd Heinrich from "The Trees in My Forest" Last fall I was presented with a gift of two 1-gallon plastic bags of ...

Q. In a recent article, you mentioned planting acorns. What is the right time and method to plant the ones produced on one of our trees? - Gary Hoffman, Ashley N.D. A. We are enjoying a beautiful tall ...

Q. We planted a 10-foot-tall red oak in 1998. We love the fall color it gives us. This year it is producing a large crop of acorns. We would like to plant some acorns on our property in the Texas Hill ...

If we are lucky, all the Sonoran Desert oaks will make a good acorn crop this year. Even under normal rainfall, oak acorn production can vary significantly depending on where the tree is in terms of ...

Spot an oak tree this time of year and under and all around it will be hundreds of acorns. To some gardeners, acorns are a nuisance but there are positives to them. Collecting acorns gets us outdoors, ...

DE SOTO, Wis. (REPORT FOR AMERICA) – Jerry Boardman doesn’t remember exactly when he started collecting acorns in the fall. But the thousands upon thousands of them he gathers to share with people ...

If you have more than one live oak in your landscape, you probably have sprouts emerging from the ground from at least one mature tree and maybe other sprouts spread over the landscape. Some gardeners ...

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