Recent content by OakSeeds

5-6 years ago, a friend ask for a couple of trees to screen off a 10' area in the corner of his back yard. I gave him 3 columnar oak acorns and instructions on how to plant them. I recently ask how they were doing; he said you have to come see them. One tree in particular is very interesting...

Foggy 47 said ..."Lots of factors happening everywhere.....and hard to place a "blame" on any one thing. Even small neighborhoods in my community in AZ have different political perspectives ......at least according to lawn signs last fall. The folks that moved to AZ recently are mostly...

TBT ... clearly a heritage with dominate traits of the English parent. Don't quite understand your concerns ... is it slow growth, yellow leaves, etc. My experience says best growing conditions are 1. sufficient water, 2 elimination of competition, 3 adequate fertilization, and protection...

Recently, there has been some chatter on this site about hybrid oak trees ... especially hybrid white oaks. Almost two years ago (Post 302 above) I shared a photo of two distinctly different leaves on a single white oak tree. It made acorns in 2023 at an early age and produced very few last...

Bill ..... keeping Emerald green Arbovitae, American Arbovitae, Thuja Green Giant, Leyland Cypress, and GREEN GIANT Arbovitae characteristics from getting jumbled in my mind often takes more effort than I am able/willing to expend. We attempted to use Emerald Green for some light screening...

they are NOT (see explanation below) shade intolerant ... Correct answer ... the more sun, the better; however, beyond perhaps growing a little slower, and maybe less dense, they will survive/thrive with 4-5 hours of sun.

After noticing that fellows jeans, I wondered if he caught them on artificial lures or was "hogging" em. Just joking ... plus, those folks know how to fish. Great pond/lake maintenance! A recent issue of Texas Monthly magazine carried a story about private lakes in TX where the fishery is...

You ultimately will make nice returns from shares you buy in the near future; however, don't be surprised if the market craters to a new low within anywhere from a few weeks to 2-3 months. I don't believe this is going to end well. Even now, if I was buying, I'd be dollar-cost averaging...

waterhemp? if so, can be hard to eradicate; also, hard to identify when it's young https://crops.extension.iastate.edu/encyclopedia/waterhemp If it turns out to be chickweed, this will describe its value to wildlife and treatment methods if you choose to treat ...

Well done my friend .... QCDs or tax liability averaging; the opposite of dollar cost averaging are a couple of options to lower your tax liability in comparison to a big dump (obviously, you know all that) ... would be nice if DJT lowered the cap. gains rate instead of the corporate rate so you...

Catscratch ... this site will give you biologist info by county in KS. They might have some insight regarding the condition of that deer. https://ksoutdoors.com/Services/Private-Landowner-Assistance/Wildlife-Biologists

There are 2 ,major reasons why they float and surprisingly, they can be related. The number 1, and most frequent reason is because they lost moisture content ... either got too hot or when refrigerated suffered evaporation (need to check periodically on those in fridge to ensure the paper...

Pollarding ... which creates "Trubs" Yes, you can look it up.... https://www.plantamnesty.org/wp-content/uploads/Pollarding.pdf 😉

I'd be pretty cautious at this point ... definitely wouldn't do anything until after Wednesday (4-9) even if there is a little bounce back on Monday or Tuesday. Folks, we're in uncharted waters with the possibility of a full blown tariff war. Y'all may have bigger gonads than me and I'm pretty...