not true at all. if it did, I would not have raked or picked up 60 gallons of them from my yard over the past month. would have been more, but I had to remove 2 trees damaged during a storm.
Hi Kathy, give me a little more info. on the problem you want to resolve. Are you getting a lot of lttle oaks popping up in the lawn? My baby maples seem to succomb to regular lawn mowing - no leaves = no noursihment = no future. Just a note on Pat's acorns. For a while I've been experimenting with wild foods and native agriculture and put acorns on the list this year. If you have white oak acorns you have a treasure trove. The ones I gathered were sweet out of the shell and, toasted, had
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a rich almost carmel taste. These didn't even require leaching with a boiling water bath. All that presupposes, of course, a chemically clean landing zone.
Kathy, theoretically a pre-emergent herbicide would work in keeping the oak seed or acorn from germinating, since that is what a a pre-emergent is sopposed to do. I have not tried it with acorns, so I can't guarantee it. The pre-emergent would also prevent any newly planted lawnseed from sprounting to.
"I'm not aware of any pre-emergent that controls oak seedlings but one product that comes to mind is dichlobenil (Casoron). I think that this product would do a good job, but have no research evidence to support.
"I have been working with PBI Gordon to develop this old product for the control of Florida
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betony, and market it in a 5 lb container for the Southeast (marketed by Lilly Miller). They are pursuing this, and hope to see a product on the shelves of many mom and pop stores soon."
Walter's suggestion: You could experiment with Preen or Amaze pre-emergents...let me know how they do.
A gardener sends feedback:
"Per your request to let you know if pre-emergents prevented oak tree sprouts in the beds.....they did not, as you predicted."
Sorry I mentioned lawn, evidently thats not the reason you don't want the acorns to sprout. Sure you have good and sufficient reason. The comment about eating acorns was an aside to Pat. Good luck and have a nice day.
Hello Kathy! Apply a broad leaf herbicide in the places where you see acorns have fallen. Start with the least-toxic weed remedies and only use synthetic herbicides if nothing else works. Most can harm nearby plant life if done incorrectly, and can also harm you. Corn-gluten meal is a natural herbicide as well as household vinegar.
"I'm not aware of any pre-emergent that controls oak seedlings but one product that comes to mind is dichlobenil (Casoron). I think that this product would do a good job, but have no research evidence to support.
"I have been working with PBI Gordon to develop this old product for the control of Florida ...»
Walter's suggestion: You could experiment with Preen or Amaze pre-emergents...let me know how they do.
A gardener sends feedback:
"Per your request to let you know if pre-emergents prevented oak tree sprouts in the beds.....they did not, as you predicted."