Anyone Got Any Acorns this Autumn ?

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irishdraft

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We have large oak trees around the edge of my summer grazing and the acorns usually dictate when i move horses to winter fields but not an acorn in sight or on the trees, checked someone elses trees down the road they have no acorns either is this just my area or are there no acorns this year, never known this happen before in the 10 years i have had this property. Does anyone have any ?
 
No we are the same and I had real problems last year in that my WB acquired a bit of a taste for them :(
Must have been affected by our weird summer, but then all the fruit crops have been adversely affected too!
 
we had loads of horse chestnuts, but barely any walnuts - no plums or greengages to speak of and a few hazlenuts and now an abundance of mushrooms, again which my weirdo WB has taken to eating - very strange.
 
we have no acorns either on two big oaks... had a minor panic horses had already eaten them and were about to keel over :rolleyes:
 
Pleased to hear my oak trees arent the only ones, thought they may have some strange disease,hard winter for the squirrels this year
 
Phew, thought i was going crazy
(or at least the neighbours think i am due to me standing under the oak trees staring intently at them for the last fortnight!:p)
last year there were buckets of acorns this year nothing:confused:
 
Our tree's have some tiny one's. Last year we had a bumper crop and I spent hours raking before giving up and fencing them off.

I did read somewhere, that oaks don't always produce big crops of acorns annually.
 
Nope, no acorns here either in sevenoaks, kent!
First time in 15years that I have not had to fence off my three oak trees. and constantly sweep the yard- loving it!
Not an apple either!
 
alison247 said:
Nope, no acorns here either in sevenoaks, kent!
First time in 15years that I have not had to fence off my three oak trees. and constantly sweep the yard- loving it!
Not an apple either!
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I'm 3 miles from 7oaks and have 6 oak trees - nope, no acorns which means I can move ponies into winter field without breaking my back raking.
 
lol been thinking this the last few days and thinking perhaps i was going doodally :o i have 4 huge oaks that border my field, usually my summer field but i swapped about this year and it's now my winter field and i was dreading the acorn drop, but none here either:D
 
No acorns, which I'm pleased about. Saves clearing them up. Also no sloes, which I'm most definitely not pleased about. Christmas with no sloe gin, unthinkable.!!!!!!!!
No apples, 2 pears and not a plum in sight. Absolutely loads of useless hips and haws. At least the birds will feed well.
 
None here either - have been checking underneath the trees and none seem to have fallen, and looking up into the branches can't see any waiting to come down either!
 
We had mega high winds earlier in the spring (bad enough i missed 4 consecutive shows with my trade stall after the gazebo blew down the main ring) we had mega high winds, drought and then serious rain.

Saying that tho, i read the factors contributing to the pollination cycle of acorns can take 2 seasons to become apparent! Ie next yr might be even less acorns, or the cause could have been last season instead of this season.

We've had no greengage, apples, pears, hazelnuts or blackthorn sloes this yr, so i wonder if it was those high winds to blame. I've been scratting around for hawthorn to plant out in the gaps in my hedges, and found they're most plentiful in the spinneys/where they're sheltered.
 
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Same here, I'm near Sevenoaks and have been seen several times peering closely at the ground under the oak trees and scratching my head. Made a nice change.
 
Can't say I've looked at the oaks in the field, as horses aren't in there at the mo. We did have a lot of apples, but many of them have split, the raspberries weren't very nice this year either, but lots of nice blackberries, loads of rosehips (horses love them) and a bumper crop of wild strawberries.

The thing I've really noticed though, especially with having loads of windfalls, is the lack of wasps (yay!) and I haven't see a single bot fly-no eggs, nothing. Yay again!!
 
I'm in Sussex and we have no acorns or sycamore keys or cob nuts and very few conkers.

The only thing we have is sweet chestnuts but they are all very small.

I had just started working and living on the farm here this time last year and the difference is amazing. We have no mushrooms, apples, cherries or pears. Last year I was worried about the dogs getting stung as they had great fun scoffing windfalls but this year nothing for them to eat and not a single a wasp either.
 
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