Have you ever gone for a walk at summer's end, picked up an acorn and put it in your pocket? If you take that acorn out of your pocket and plant it, your homegrown valley oak, live oak or other ...

Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

This subject should have appeared last fall. Our giant northern red oak had a massive crop of acorns — the largest crop ever — for this giant tree planted around 1970. At that time, the young tree was ...

“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 ...

The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of ...

You may think that the planting season is over. Not for me. I recently planted eight giant red oaks. Or, I should say, potentially giant oaks. I planted eight acorns. I’m hoping that at least one will ...

NORTH LIMA, Ohio (WKBN) — YSU has many traditions. A new one is the Legacy Forests planting. It’s a program that has taken root to make for a better future. It’s done in the fall, knowing the winter ...