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Oak
Justin Doherty2
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Hi guys,
Does anyone have experience with growing oak from seed. I'd like to give it a whirl this year.
Thanks,
Justin
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Just come to my garden B**??!!!! things germinate all over the place - not fussy which bed they choose. Spend more time weeding little oaks than anything else. They have just started this year
so
It's right time to start, have more than one acorn, keep damp in leafy compost rather than multi-purpose. leave pots whatever in a shady place and check them for growth.
Ask the jays that plant them in my shady bank
Apparently you push them into soft soil with your beak, then forget where you've put them ........ in a few years time you have a forest ......... Simples
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When the acorns fall off the tree, pick some up, sow them, can't fail.
I don't think now is the right time though. Hard to find the acorns.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Just like trowels then Dove!
Now, where did I last use it?...
Not hard to find in my garden, Nut .
I have always found growing from acorns easy and successful. Just press them down into a deepish 8 inch pot using soil or ordinary compost, water, then stick outside. Water if dry.
I have had a 90% success rate. The only problem then is what do you do with all of these little trees?
And why do I plant them in the first place, if not 'just to see!!'
Suirrels took and ate/planted all mine when they were barely ripe Matty
In the sticks near Peterborough
When the children were young they planted one each and the following year was named plant a tree year so we dug them up and went out into the country side in Kent and planted all 4
wish I could remember where so that I could see their height now probably 40feet (what wonderful thoughts to go to sleep on from little acorns, mighty oaks 
night folks)