Acorns

[J-jay]

Acorns. How do you get acorns off the ground in the yard?
Is there any thing you can do to a white oak tree to make it stop producing Acorns? Jay in N.C.

[amwitched]

I leave them on the ground for all of the critters to gather for their winter feasts.

The only way to stop the acorn production is to kill the tree. Not a very good idea in my humble opinion.

[uncle Will in In.]

Import squirrels

[Emmy D]

Get a pig or two, they will clean up every last one. Pigs love acorns!

Emmy

[ronbre]

deer and a lot of jays and other animals and birds will eat acorns..also if you have some pots..pot up some as they begin to sprout and sell the oak trees ..

acorns can be eaten..look up online how to prepare them..they have to be boiled to get out the tannins.

you could try one of those sweeper things that has a rotating broom to toss em up inside and then dump them in a woodsy area for the critters...you could mail some of us acorns that are just sprouting, so we could plant them in our woods i'd love some

[Bfly Farmer]

I second the pigs! We have guinea hogs and in fact, one of their nicknames is acorn eater. Our woods are mostly oak and we use it has our winter pasture for the hogs.

There is a trend now with foodies to want acorn finished pork. It fetches quite a higher price. I can't remember the exact figures, but I do remember thinking I couldn't imagine paying that, but people do.

[Marcia in MT]

I've seen an implement in catalogs that should work. It looks like an oval, springy cage on a stick. You run it along the ground and the wires part to let the acorns in and then they stay. It was advertised to be used on pecans and crabapples.

I'm sorry I don't remember where I saw this, but it does exist . . . somewhere.

[MushCreek]

I live in the city, and a large live oak dumps several inches of acorns in a good year. They are so thick they kill the grass. Live acorns are very small, which makes them hard to pick up, and then there's the problem of disposing of them. The garbage man won't pick up a barrel if its too heavy, so it takes me quite a while to get rid of them. I can't imagine if our yard was bigger!

[watcher]

Pig or lawn sweeper.

[Rocky Fields]

Shopvac.

[Old Vet]

Most all of the recomadions will work but a lawn rake will do the best.

[MushCreek]

I actually used a shop vac on ours- slow, but effective.

[J-jay]

THANKS to everyone who replied.I builted this house 50 years ago in the woods on a 33 arce farm so I have lived with this a long time . After having the oaks trimed several years ago they produce a lot more acorns now.
Thanks to "Wind in her Hair". I will contact the Dept of Natural Resources. I would give them to anyone to pick them up. I really Love the oak trees. Jay in N.C.

[Cabin Fever]

The deer and the squirrels do a pretty good job of cleaning up our acorns....for free!