Falling Acorn Season

Berth 29 opinions · Oct 6, 2012

Need to wear a hat outside, acorns are flying around like little hailstones.

Around here people used to collect acorns by putting out old bushel baskets with a cloth in the bottom.
The acorns were used to either attract squirrels in winter if the food got low or to replant land that the lumber had been harvested off of. They would either use a plow or disk to rough up the ground and throw the acorns off the wagon. Another was to use a hoe to dig a small hole, drop in an acorn, take 10 steps and repeat.

i had also heard of people making flour out of the acorns from one type of white oak, but have never seen it done.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 6, 2012

The paddock where we put our foals for weaning has big oak trees that hang over the metal roofed run in shed. After about the second day there, they are pretty much bombproof... Never thought of gathering them, but may do it this year. Just picked up and fenced another little pasture with about a gazillion laying on the ground......

paul · Oct 6, 2012

Try living at our place - got a dozen or so black walnut trees around the house......

Neat when they were little, but 20 years later, getting dangerous!

--->Paul

2x4 · Oct 6, 2012

what's really nice is living or working in a house or barn with a metal roof that is under a walnut tree.

RayP(MI) · Oct 6, 2012

No acorns this year, due to frosts at wrong time this spring. Deer are scratching for the few they can find.

Like Paul, we've been walking around the black walnuts - it's either that or wear a hard hat.
Walking on the ground under them is a challenge without turning your ankle. Where are all those squirrels we used to have hanging around here?

JayinNY · Oct 6, 2012

No acorns here in ny either, I was wondering why we dident have any! Dident relize it was that crazy spring weather!

Fergienewbee · Oct 6, 2012

I hate walnut trees!!! I have lots of small scrub walnuts that will never amount to anything. I have a few good ones that I like for timber, but would rather have oak. Have lots of them as well. I haven't looked for acorns, but had a good crop of hickory nuts.

Larry

northvale-PA · Oct 6, 2012

walnuts like low land, oaks like dry land.

PeteTheRookie · Oct 6, 2012

Interesting.
We had a mild acorn season last fall but this fall there are a lot of them again.
Read a piece on weather.com that it is not a leading of weather but a trailing indicator of weather that has already happened.
The odd part was article said the crop you get now is determined by conditions 2-3 years prior.
Pete

Kenboling · Oct 7, 2012

We've Oak and Hickory and they are just lousy with nuts. The kids are avoiding the swing set as hickory nuts are dropping like bombs and the ones hitting the barn sound like a small war. The dang squirrels are so fat they can hardly run.

Ken

jose bagg · Oct 7, 2012

we've been laying out tarps under the oaks and collecting the acorns up for the hogs. Fill a 50 gallon barrel with the acorns from just one tree- our pigs love 'em. The ones falling over the driveway sure are rough on the trucks , though..

toadady · Oct 7, 2012

i have 4 walnut trees in the back yard, right in a line. last sunday we picked up a tractor bucket load, and today about a half a bucket load, didn't bump the trees today like i did last week. i had a cushon from the porch swing to cover my backside from the falling bombs

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