From Little Acorns II

In From Little Acorns I introduced you to our little oak trees. We successfully managed to get them back to England in our little car when we came back last week. Then it was time to pot them up after a little trip to the garden centre.

We bought five 40 x 40 cm terracotta plant pots which we figured would be big enough to keep our trees in for a good while. We also bought three different types of compost to mix together after asking for advice at said garden centre. 

Firstly we mixed our compost, using a wheelbarrow, to make sure it was evenly distributed.

After adding some broken pieces of clay pots to the bottom of each plant pot for drainage, in went the compost.

Then it was time to repot the little oaks. Some of them had surprisingly impressive root systems and all seemed pretty healthy.

To help us keep track of each trees progress, we numbered the plant pots and then placed them in an out of the way place.

Now it's just time to watch them (hopefully) grow!

From Little Acorns

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 :)