There was a drought last year so it might have affected the trees this year.
Too bad about the squirrels. There are still way too many.
I think we need an Acorn bailout...
Bush’s fault, of course.
They come and go.
Anyone with a live oak or a pecan tree can tell you that.
Nuts and ACORN. Obama won. I think this guy is confused.
I’ve noticed it this year in No. Calif. No acorns this year...none.
Whenever we don’t find many acorns it means the wild boars have returned and are inhaling all the acorns.
The previous two years we have had bumper crops of acorns; vast numbers of the damned things falling from the oak trees around my house to make raking an even bigger chore than usual. This year, there are not as many. Neither occurrence is unusual, except for those determined to find some phantasmagorical climatic significance in every little crevice of the natural world.
It may be that due to this year being so wet that the acorns sunk further into the ground than normal. Could just be due a cycle of nature and keeping the squirrels in check.
There don’t seem to be that many oak trees around anyway.
There are so many squirrels in my small town that every day you hear of a squirrel chewing in power, cable and phone lines causing an outage. Nothing but Rabies infected fluffy tailed rats, I tell you
Interesting. I’m only home in Pennsylvania on the weekends, and occasionally miss a weekend. When I went to do my annual acorn collection to have a supply to hand-feed to my squirrels, I couldn’t find but a handful and those weren’t in good shape. I thought maybe I’d missed the peak season and groundskeepers had done an extra-thorough job cleaning up acorns along with leaves. I ended up ordering a big batch from eBay (yep, you can even get acorns on eBay). No way could I disappoint those adorable little squirrels, who have absolute faith in the ability of the humans at my house to dispense acorns year round.
There are other assessments, kcgardens.kansascity.com:
“Where’s the beef – No, I mean where’s the acorns?
Ok, let’s cut to the chase on this one because inquiring minds want to know. This is a topic I have never really given any thought to, or for that matter, never really even noticed. That is until the phones started to ring at the Extension office. The question heard over and over was: Why doesn’t my oak tree have any acorns? It’s always had them before, some years more than others, but this year there isn’t one on the big old tree.
The answer is really simpler than one would think. The reason for the lack of acorns on pin oak and red oak trees is the freeze of April 2007. Now, that may lead one to ask an additional question: What does a freeze that happened over a year ago have to do with this year? The answer is: Everything! Let me explain.
The red oak family has an interesting habit in the fact that it takes two seasons for acorns to form. The first year, the tree forms what are called acornets which are immature acorns. These small growths are hardly noticeable at all on the tree. The second year, they develop into what we know as an acorn.
The freeze of April 2007 killed the developing acornets, thus halting the production of an acorn crop in 2008...”
The Mesquite Beans are good this year.
OMG, we’re all gonna die!!! We’d better pass legislation against carbon dioxide or else we’ll die even faster. I’m so depressed.
Come down to Georgia. We had a bumper crop of nuts of all kinds. I could plant 10^6 oaks with the acorns that fell in my yard.
Plenty of acorns in central Virginia.
My girls found tons of Acorns in Findlay State Park last year. Maybe Ohio should export some.
The Acorns all went to Ohio to vote and it’s a long walk back?
From small acorns towering dreams take root and grow
Star Ledger | 10.25.06 | CHRISTINA JOHNSON
Posted on 10/26/2006 1:55:04 PM PDT by Coleus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1726510/posts
[snip] Amid the squirrels and jays pouncing on acorns early this fall was 10-year-old Junior Girl Scout Amanda Diacont. As Tropical Storm Ernesto whipped the white oaks around her family’s vacation campsite near Cape May, Amanda poked out of her canvas tent and swept falling acorns into empty milk jugs, working to earn her Inchworm of Service badge by contributing to the state Forest Service annual acorn collection. She filled 2 1/2 containers. [end]
