A few Sundays ago I went to volunteer at the Gardiner Museum an entire museum dedicated to pottery, sculpture and ceramics. Just heaven candy and rainbows. Started my shift early with a walk musing around the floor. A lunch time I took a walk around and found a gorgeous oak tree.
<some notes about tree ID here>
The squirrels were hard at work gathering nuts , burying nuts (natures little tree planters), and playing with each other or it could be chasing each other away from their nuts.
I have been listening to a lot of permaculture podcasts and the books on the principles as I want to incorporate these principles on my little piece of this earth. Permaculture priciples get us back to nature observing the natural workings of the environment and incorporating them. Today I was wondering how nature plants its trees. Then as I was walking along nature gave me one of the ways.
Then I remembered my problem. When I looked around my property I did not see a lot of oak trees an I wondered where the acorns i found came from. And lately I have been pondering what I want my tiny forest to look like. It wouldn't hurt to try to grow an oak tree. So lets try.
Theses are the Acorns I collected from the ground at the base of the tree. When they fall you can be sure that they are mature acorns.
- I examined them to make sure they did not have any holes, scratches or squirrel bite marks. They were perfect.
- I took the tops off and rolled them individually in damp paper towel I squirted with water from a spray bottle
- Put them in a zip locked bag, then blew some air in the bag, labeled with the date and place and put them in the fridge.
- I will check on them weekly just to blow more air in the bag. But about January I will start watching to see if do something amazing like start sprouting
More updates in a few weeks when i see something interesting :)....
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