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Oak Acorns

snickssnicks Posts: 3
in Problem solving

So apparently after much research the two oak trees in my backyard that drop millions of acorns that grow roots and sprout up all over my flower beds are called Japanese Evergreen or Japanese Blue Oak.... They are common in the South so I want to ask if anyone knows of anything I could apply to the ground that isn't going to kill my plants but stop the across from growing roots? They are driving me absolutely insane and I'm about to have the trees cut down which would devastate my local squirrel population :-(

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    a rake?

    Devon.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    well, they are plants. There's no chemical hat distinguishes between plants you want and plants you don't want.

    If I didn't pull ash, field maple, sycamore and all the rest every year, I'd be living in a forest by now. 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    I go over the beds with a sharp hoe every so often - that gets rid of most of the ash tree seedlings that grow from the seeds that fall from the trees around our garden, and the oak tree seedlings growing from the acorns sown by the local jays. 

    Its not any more work than I would do to remove other weeds from time to time. 

    If that is too much like gardening I suppose you could always put down a lawn, grow flowers in pots and sweep up the acorns. 

    Id rather do that than destroy a mature oak tree. 

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    I suspect that M-U is correct and you are not in the UK where this forum is mainly based. Are you in the US?

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150

    I'd say pull 'em out, then again I have a tiny gardenimage.

    Hat's off to you nut with your huge plot?image

    I think MU's 'sat-nav' is right tooimage

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    they get missed though Kitty image

    New trees appearing all the time



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Do you think any of them are forgotten squirrel stashes nut?

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    the hazel, walnut and oak are Lb but the ash and acers are more likely wind blown and germinate where they land



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150

    Being a noseybonk I had to look it up image

    Quercus acuta : native to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China.

    Nothing like the kind of oak we were probably envisaging.

    Minimal info on the RHS website

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/14237/Japanese-evergreen-oak/Details

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    I'm just waiting for some sort of advert now.....image

    Or am I getting very cynical?  image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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