Does anyone have any oak seed from west texas or the hill country to trade?
Oak Seed
Are you asking for acorns? 'Cause if you are....come with a truck. We're skiing on them in our yard. I've never seen so many falling. Sounds like someone's running across our roof at all hours of the day and night.
Here, too. When I'm working outside, the acorns falling on the metal roof of our storage building sounds like hail. Really a "bumper crop" this year.
What kind of oaks do you have? If it's one I don't have i would love to trade for some.
A note I just found in "Texas Gardener" newsletter: Now is the time to start seed from your favorite oak tree. Gather a few acorns and make sure the seed is viable before planting. If it has holes in it, rattles or floats when placed in bucket of water, discard it. The acorns that pass this test can be planted in gallon size or larger containers. Hill the buckets into some mulch to protect from cold weather and keep well watered through the winter.
They grow well in the compost pile, too. Ask me how I know this!! LOL
We have tons of little oak seedlings all over our yard! The acorns fall on the roof, then rooooolllllllll down the roof and plunk on the cars, the truck, the sidewalk. When I'm working outside I hear them hitting the ground.
We have a live oak (stays green year-round, drops leaves in the spring after new leaves have grown) and one in the back that isn't evergreen. I'd be happy to send you a gallon of acorns for each. Just add dirt for your planter! LOL
I've been sweeping crushed acorn powder out of the gutter by the bucketful... I think the squirrels' heads all exploded with happiness - I've haven't seen any in several days...
The real question here is, cowpea123, what Oaks are you wanting? We have most the same Oaks here as they do in the Hill Country, they just grow better when they get more rain. There is one Oak that grows in deep wast Texas that we don't have but it only grows about 10' tall with 90' roots, not much good for anything. Here we have Water, Willow, Post, Pin, Red, Shumard, Black Jack, Blue Jack and some Bur and live Oaks.