Texas Gardening: Texans - What is the worst garden thug you have planted?, 0 by LouC

LouC wrote:
We (myself and neighbors on both sides) have red oak trees.....they are native and relatively free from disease (unless you count oak wilt)....well I have turned most of my 1/3 acre lot into flowerbeds over the last couple of summer seasons. Wonderful, except, all of the acorns must germinate. Everday is an exercise in weeding the little oak trees out of the beds. Of course, the beds have been greatly amended, fertilized and watered so it is an ideal nursery. Also the squirrels plant pecans and the taproot on a seedling is at least a foot long. If there was a profit to be made I could just give up the flower garden and sell oak and pecan seedlings.