Posted on 27/10/2020 13:49
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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Posted on 27/10/2020 18:32
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.
Posted on 27/10/2020 18:39
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
Posted on 27/10/2020 21:13 by FishermanYes but no one seems to be doing anything practical to set some of these seeds for planting out to say replace the Ash thats dying.
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