We're having a terrible drought - coupled with outbreaks of extreme temperatures - here in Western New Jersey, and it seems to be killing some very old and very beautiful trees. It's very sad.
From time to time in autumn, my boys and I hike some of the protected forests here, and we gather nuts - nuts we don't know, as well as nuts we do know, like acorns - and plant them in our yard. It will be interesting to see what this year has wrought on the, um, nut harvest.
A lot of the oaks from last year's hikes seem to have taken. We had about 15 oak seedlings - and tried to water them to keep them alive. Some were killed by extreme heat on the days we just couldn't get to watering them, a few were trashed by animals, but I would say that about half of them will get to try out next year.
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