... so that's why my veg beds are all full of baby oak trees!

"... jays and possibly grey squirrels planted more than half the trees", of which many were oaks, during passive rewilding of two abandoned farmland sites in Cambridgeshire, Dr Richard Broughton is quoted as saying in a soundbite about the article Long-term woodland restoration on lowland farmland through passive rewilding.

Which I particularly appreciate having been linked to today, because this morning I was dividing at least some of my time at the plot between bafflement at the way I keep having baby oaks turning up in my vegetable beds despite there being no obvious parent trees nearby, and... watching a jay skulking around the gate getting mobbed by a pair of blackbirds.

I am very pleased to have an explanation. :)