Gardening 2020

Probably shouldn't have put a Tromboncino in the raised beds. It's the size of a medium child with flailing arms.

I don’t know if this is gardening per se, but has anyone else (in the UK specifically, but maybe it extends to other countries?) noticed an EXTRAORDINARY crop of acorns this year?

Like, not just that there are an exceptionally large amount of them, but they are also enormous? I swear I found an acorn yesterday that was nearly 2” long and shaped like a rocket ship. I can’t remember ever seeing acorns of this size before!

There are definitely plenty this year! We've got a few young oak trees hanging over our back fence and cutting the grass is lethal.

From what I understand, oak trees have 'mast' years, where they produce a bumper crop - the reasons for which are poorly understood.

Ah, thank you for the word / explanation. I looked it up and it makes sense now:

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2017/10/autumn-is-back/

Seems like a supersaturation of acorns is generated by specific weather conditions, and the benefit is that there is too much mast produced for animals to eat all of them - so in certain years the trees all go crazy together.