Back in the autumn, my wife and I decided that it might be fun to try to grow an oak tree from the hundreds of acorns that were along the sides of the roads here in Grenoble. So we picked some up. At that point we didn't really know the correct way to set them growing, so we looked it up on various websites and ended up putting the acorns we'd collected into a bag of moist compost in the fridge.
They stayed there all winter, and we retrieved the acorns in early March to plant them out. Many of them had already started sprouting so we knew they were ready.
Fast forward to now and we have a whole host of small trees growing. Pretty much each acorn that we put in the compost has started to grow! Each shoot is about 10 cm tall and developing nicely.
We plan to repot the shoots into much bigger pots when we get back to England, as we don't anticipate having anywhere permanent to plant them for a fair while.
Any advice on how best to care for our growing trees would be greatly appreciated :)
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