At 06:23 AM 3/3/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I am cutting next year's firewood in areas I would like to convert to
>edible forest. Yes, Paul, the red oak acorns are edible but how many acorn
>meals do you eat a week? and if I ever do need to eat them I have many
>acres of predominent oak forest far from the house. The system that is
White oak acorns are far better than red oak ones. If it wasn't such a
bother to get the tannis out of even the white oak ones, I might eat
then fairly often, they can be good. The best way to eat them though
is to feed them to something else and eat the meat.
Just last night I saw a variety of bur oak listed in an on-line catalog
that was selected for low tannin content. They claimed the acorns were
sweet. I thought I bookmarked the page, but I guess I didn't.
>evolving for me ( the standard local one is to hire an excavator and rip
>out allstumps and rocks and bury them ) is to cut out the hardwoods over 3
I had a neighbor come over and do some tractor work on my driveway. He
could not figure out why I didn't want him to push over all the trees
and stumps where I want the garden to be. Even after he agreed that the
top soil would wash away and the place would be as hard as a parking lot.
He couldn't see any reason to try a different way than what everybody does.
>or 4 years and smother the root systems (cut off at ground level, cover with
>black plastic though I am also trying layers of cardboard, then soil and
I've just been stomping one the new limb as they sprout on the stumps and
that seems to work. It'll work eventually I guess.
>plant a cover crop. ) as I am planting nut trees and shrubs reasoning
>that they most naturally start as an understory. Then when the final
>large trees are dropped the desired trees will be established and take off
>in full light. This way I hope the existing forest soil is preserved though
>I temper the acidity with limestone for select plants. jvh southern NH
