Lookin good !!! Its up to you and God now
Great early fall acorn. Generally drop about two weeks before other acorns.
Deer really wolf them down. Not only because they like the acorns, but because they are often the first acorn to fall.
I'm hoping this will be the year.
I worried about that well since this is a non native species of oak. It may depend on the environment, but I rarely see any seedlings at all near mine and they have been dropping for about ten or eleven years ... and they drop a lot.
Here we have Chinese Tallow trees that the USDA encouraged people to plant back in the 60's for a fast growing shade tree. My Grandfather planted quite a few on his farm for shade for his cows. They have become very invasive and spread terribly all around parts of Louisiana. The beekeepers like them for the honey they produce when they bloom. Here is an interesting article I found about Sawtooth Oaks.
www.deerassociation.com
Thanks for the article. Glad that out of 3,000 oaks planted, only 500 were Sawtooth. The pre-existing wooded areas are about 50/50 willow oak and swamp chestnut as far as oaks go. Appears from the article that I can start converting the Sawtooth to firewood in a few years. By then, surely the other oaks will be producing.Here we have Chinese Tallow trees that the USDA encouraged people to plant back in the 60's for a fast growing shade tree. My Grandfather planted quite a few on his farm for shade for his cows. They have become very invasive and spread terribly all around parts of Louisiana. The beekeepers like them for the honey they produce when they bloom. Here is an interesting article I found about Sawtooth Oaks.
4 QDM Lessons I Learned from Sawtooth Oaks - NDA
I learned priceless lessons about Quality Deer Management from sawtooth oak trees. Sawtooth oak is a native of Asia that was introduced to North America in the 1920s. It was little known to hunters until the 1960s and 70s, when wildlife researchers began reporting the results of their use of the...
