Leaves and Acorns

[noodle one]

Is it just me or are there more leaves on the ground and bigger acorn this year? I have a good size lawn with a lot of oak and maple trees in my yard Every year I pick the leaves up two or three times and that is it. This year it has been an never ending job. Every other day I am out there picking the leaves up and I don't mean a few , but the lawn is covered and the oaks still have alot leaves still on. Also the the acorns to me are bigger and more abundance this year and all over my yard. I am seeing more deer in my yard than in the woods.

[Doc]

Is it just me or are there more leaves on the ground and bigger acorn this year? I have a good size lawn with a lot of oak and maple trees in my yard Every year I pick the leaves up two or three times and that is it. This year it has been an never ending job. Every other day I am out there picking the leaves up and I don't mean a few , but the lawn is covered and the oaks still have alot leaves still on. Also the the acorns to me are bigger and more abundance this year and all over my yard. I am seeing more deer in my yard than in the woods.

It sure does seem like there are more leaves than ever .... lol. But, there probably is not. More likely it is just the way they are coming off this year. Instead of coming down in a short period of time, they seem to be spread out to make the biggest mess for the longest period of time.

I don't rake anymore leaves than I have to. I simply mow the lawn blowing the leaves out as I go around. When I get to the edge, there are thickets on three sides so the mulched up leaf bits get blown into the thicket.

As far as the acorns, I can't answer that. Just like our apples, I haven't seen more than a half dozen acorns all year and those were shriveled up tiny things that dropped way early before they even started to fill out. So apparently what you are talking about depends on location. I know what happened to our apples. They got forced into early blossom in the spring and then got repeatedly hammered by hard frosts. The acorns? .... I've got no idea what happened to them unless maybe it's a product of the severe drought that we had for almost all of the summer this year. It's funny that we seem to have a bumper crop of hickory nuts and walnuts but no butternuts or acorns. Anybody figures all these contradictions out, please let me know. I'm pretty confused as to what effects these different mast sources.