The Year of The Oaks

[Kurt]

Thanks to this site I had some success finally in 2025 on bur oaks in a normal moisture year vs drought. Here area few pics from last weekends trip to mow and weed whack around the babies. These were grown from acorns planted late fall 2024. All 50 or so previous seedlings of shumard, bur and chinkapin died in previous years droughts. I have around 15 bur oak seedlings doing pretty well.

Thanks to even more help from members on this site I am now planting DCO acorns and sawtooth acorns this fall. It takes a bit to prep sites for the acorns but it sure is fun to check on them in May and see seedlings coming. My neighbor in KS thinks that our luck will be better this route thanks to a more complete root system. I'm not arguing.

Thanks to these kinds of threads and some much needed moisture, 2025 was a successful year of the oaks. Here is to spring of 2026 and more baby oaks.