I lost count of how many of them I plinked too. I got to really enjoy the sound of them being hit center mass with a pellet. Sounds like you’re striking a pillow. To no effect on the population obviously Maybe I just need to bring in somewhere between 3-4 trillion acorns and I might have one or two make it to being trees someday?
We planted a bunch lf oaks we grew from acorns. We'll see if the critters ate them over winter. We grew about 75 of them.
Last year I noticed they dug underneath my protected raised beds to get to the chestnuts I planted. Luckily the seedlings were established already when they finally got to the nuts. I'll bet some fencing like that would work as long as I buried it at least a foot deep.
Using the hardware cloth I already had on hand, I took your idea and I transplanted a black walnut seedling that popped up last week. Hopefully more come up soon (I stratified several dozen nuts over the winter)
We had an area that was hit by some heavy winds years back, this year we planted 10 Norway Spruce which we bought through our county.
I’ve never had any luck moving a walnut tree, neither has a good friend of mine. Hopefully you will have better results.
My one survivor from last year did fine, but just like this one, I moved it within a couple weeks of it sprouting and got the entire taproot out with it. Fingers crossed.
This year I’m growing Chinese chestnuts in my protected raised bed. I’m figuring on selling them (cheap) in the late winter of 2024 as bare root trees. I know there are a few landowners around who hunt their own property, so a pair of these planted in a clearing will definitely draw in the deer and turkeys.
As I took the chicken wire cover off my chestnut bed to pull weeds, I found a rogue mulberry tree that popped up along my fence. I almost pulled it but decided to let it do it’s thing. Much better a mulberry there than a Norway maple.
Aint no critters getting in those cages! When the boys are teens you could cut that mulberry down for firewood!
In late March I acquired 5 small sassafras saplings and planted them along the edge of my woods. Apparently they don’t transplant well. Only 2 put out leaves, and what’s on there is small. Hopefully they bounce back better next year. I wanted to diversify these woods since all that was regenerating naturally were sugar maples, of which I cut down probably 100
I uncovered this red (slippery) elm 2 summers ago from underneath a huge tangle of grape/bittersweet vines. It has since straightened out and doubled in height, well on its way to becoming a respectable tree.
One Osage survived the onslaught of the squirrels, out of the THOUSANDS of seeds I planted. It’s not doing too well. It’s under attack. First covered in some kind of leaf eating mites, and now the bark right up the small main stem is cracked, cutting off the flow to the upper parts of the plant. It has since sent up two small stump sprouts in its bid to survive. I still have a few seeds so I’ll try again in a bit.
