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We have a few oak trees overhanging our garden and they drop acorns each year but this year they are doing overtime. We filled a big green wheelie bin with acorns which was collected as green waste, we then refilled it last weekend and need to wait 2 weeks for the next collection but we have enough acorns to half fill it again already.
Has anyone got any good ideas* for what to do with them?
*No, we cannot release some pigs for pannage
Feed then to the squi. ....ah, no
brew your own fuel
Surely even just taking them somewhere and doing nothing more than throwing them on the ground is better than throwing them out as garden waste? Or better still plant them?
I'm collecting them on doggo walks and have planted loads of them.
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/spring-clean/
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Make acorn coffee
Reconsider pigs, for a variety of reasons.
[i]Surely even just taking them somewhere and doing nothing more than throwing them on the ground is better than throwing them out as garden waste? Or better still plant them?[/i]
The green waste wheelie bin we use goes to recycling as fertilizer so is not wasted. It is not the general waste wheelie bin.
For a couple of years we swept them up - garden is part patio - and tipped them into the woodland behind the garden. Unfortunately this became a series of piles of acorns as they built up on the areas of the floor that didn't 'absorb' them. Compost bins were also no use as we filled six with oak leaves and acorns in the first autumn we were here and ended up just emptying and throwing away the uncomposted results 3 years later.
Plant them? Can you suggest what to do with 6,000,000 oak saplings? If you want some then I can give you 20-30 in the spring that will have self set, just for the cost of postage.
That brew your own fuel / food video might be worth a try. Depends how many acorns I can be bothered to peel though
If you leave them the squirels will eat some and bury others, what you need are more squirels.
[i]If you leave them the squirrels will eat some and bury others, what you need are more squirrels.[/i]
What actually happens is the squirrels realise that your garden plants taste nicer and are laid out in nicer feeders (plant pots). These feeders are great for burying the acorns that you do find too, you just have to eat half the plant and then dig out the remainder. Feel free to leave the dead plant and spare dirt in a pile scattered around the plant pots. If you can't find plant pots you can do much the same with the ornamental plants in the ground too.
Can you suggest what to do with 6,000,000 oak saplings?
Whatever it is I think I'm bored enough to watch you do it 🙂
"are you bored enough to watch my live steam of an acorn (maybe) growing into an oak tree?"
To be honest stranger things have become internet sensations. You could even develop a barnd from areyouboredenough.com
Piglet eats 'haycorns'...
Here you go. Make sure you check on here as to which grinder to use.
https://foragedfoods.co.uk/how-to-make-acorn-coffee/
First product from 'are you bored enough '?
More long term projects include growing trees for the next generation of naval ships...
Do an acorn-encapsulated resin kitchen floor like they do with pennies or that table you done?
Added benefit to you of messing with the heads of any indoor squirrels.
Catapult...... A big catapult
Piglet eats ‘haycorns’…
I can smell bacon sarnies..
I remember Ray Mears making some kind of stodgy acorn bread a good few years back. Might be able to find it on YouTube
If you can be arsed to take them there, Leeds are after them to help them plant 5 million trees…!
Do they burn?
If you take out only the good acorns, are you left with the bcorns?
Plant them? Can you suggest what to do with 6,000,000 oak saplings? If you want some then I can give you 20-30 in the spring that will have self set, just for the cost of postage.
A friend actually does this, dons a high vis vest of invisibility and goes out to collect all the fallen over plastic tubes from the saplings on the bypass (reducing plastic waste, good deed #1). Plants a few hundred acorns in small pots in the autumn. Then put his invisibility high-vis back on in the spring and plants them all around the perimeter of parks, green spaces, etc.
He actually got accosted by the council parks and rec guys, they said it was fine as long as the gaps between them were wide enough to get their tractor/mower through and as long as it looked tidy and no one complained then they'd be left alone.
A friend actually does this, dons a high vis vest of invisibility and goes out to collect all the fallen over plastic tubes from the saplings on the bypass (reducing plastic waste, good deed #1). Plants a few hundred acorns in small pots in the autumn. Then put his invisibility high-vis back on in the spring and plants them all around the perimeter of parks, green spaces, etc.
He actually got accosted by the council parks and rec guys, they said it was fine as long as the gaps between them were wide enough to get their tractor/mower through and as long as it looked tidy and no one complained then they’d be left alone.
This is brilliant.
Do an acorn-encapsulated resin kitchen floor like they do with pennies or that table you done?
Might find that acorns break down/rot/germinate due to the moisture in them.
... a few oak trees overhanging our garden and they drop acorns each year but this year they are doing overtime...
Spray paint them gold or silver and sell as christmas decorations.
Find someone who makes pot pourri and become their acorn supplier.
I've collected loads, enough to give each child a sapling when they leave the school at the end of Year 11. The school eco-club will be planting and nurturing them as they grow.
[i]I’ve collected loads, enough to give each child a sapling when they leave the school at the end of Year 11. The school eco-club will be planting and nurturing them as they grow.[/i]
I have a full size green wheelie bin full of nothing but acorns sat on the drive and enough to fill another one on the patio and lawn - How big is your school?
Turn them into beautiful (?) works of art?
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https://www.pinterest.co.uk/patternplease/acorn-art/
@WCA, only about 600 pupils. I have a lot of spare acorns. Do you want some?
I now have Acorn Art coming up in my Pinterest feed thanks to this thread.
Couldn't you attach a seed drill and a hopper filled with acorns to one of your outlandish cars and do some speed planting? Maybe pitch the idea to Amazon Prime...
Make a massive acorn from all the normal sized acorns. I’m bored enough to watch you do it!
[i]Couldn’t you attach a seed drill and a hopper filled with acorns to one of your outlandish cars and do some speed planting? [/i]
My outlandish cars are both up for sale if you want to try it
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Do an acorn-encapsulated resin kitchen floor like they do with pennies or that table you done?
Might find that acorns break down/rot/germinate due to the moisture in them.
I should have included a 😉 it seems.
I should have included a (;) it seems
You were right not to, after all, who doesn't want a sustainable oak floor?
Which, in a nutshell, is what you'd get
With a bit of smart work on social media you could flog them to the local kids who could then have battles with them. Going by the fuss my teachers made when we did this (and it was 50 years ago when who cared about "safety"?) it must have been a fun thing to do. I repeatedly bollocked several kids at scholl yesterday for the same thing. Horrid little sods were stealing them from the piles that the "good" kids were sweeping up for me.They could have found their own!
Three 9 year olds filled two large wheel barrows in one playtime. Thats just one tree.
Masssive paddling pool and bingo you've got your own acorn ball pool.
Watch the film called The Great Escape.
Knock up some troos with acorn depositing pockets.
Go for a walk every day into the New Forest.
Lure every wild boar, pig, x squirrel to your baited area.
Then, after a week set a a trap with a cargo net.
Hey presto. Wild boar for dinner, for weeks.
Solves the combined problem of too many acorns, and the cpst of eating crisis.
Your welcome