Spacing of trees?

[Angus 1895]

How would you recommend spacing sawtooth oak,scarlet oak, white oak and a few dunstans.

The area is roughly 0.5 acre. Maybe 0.6

I plan on a gravity drip line.

the area has some of the neighbors pivot spray

and I believe it’s smooth brome.

I am thinking a bout rows 15 to 30 feet apart and in the rows every 10 to 20 feet.

I plan on culling them for firewood as needed ( if I am lucky enough to still be around).

Thanks

 

[yoderjac]

It really depends on your situation. Trees compete for resources when planted too close, but they also protect each other from storm damage. Some trees like chestnuts are wind pollinated. The strategy I used for plant them (because I grew them from nuts and the cost per tree was tiny) was to plant them close. There crowns will interfere with each other in the long run and they will compete for resources, but they should produce better when young. Since I care mainly about nut production, I'll wait until they start producing. If I have a poor producer competing with a good producer, I'll eventually cull the poor producer. Over planting and culling is sort of how nature does it.