Pick the best time of year for pruning. Maple trees produce sap—lots of sap—which seeps out when the branches are cut. This sap makes it difficult to work on pruning the tree, so it's best to pick times of year when the sap supply will be at its lowest point. Generally, this is...
Learning how to make maple syrup is fairly easy, but also time-consuming. For a gallon of maple syrup, you’ll need about 40 gallons of sap. For other trees, such as birch, you’ll need more or less. Birch typically takes 130-150 gallons of sap to make syrup. Boil down the sap i...
Maple sugaring is an interesting and gratifying adventure in wildcrafting that can be fun for the whole family. I love the science of sap and syrup, my son in particular enjoys collecting the sap and managing the fire (more on that in my next post), and we all enjoy consuming the final...
Shaping a Weeping Japanese Maple A weeping Japanese maple should have branches that flow like a waterfall from the top to the ground. It's much easier to see this effect after some of the leaves have started to grow in, so you might want to wait a few weeks after the initial pruning t...
While established trees can withstand dry spells, newly transplanted ones cannot. So, whatever you do, do not let your tree dry out in its first few years after being transplanted. After that, the first few inches of the soil can dry out in between watering. ...
While trees store substantial amounts of nonstructural carbon (NSC) for later use, storage regulation and mobilization of stored NSC in long-lived organisms like trees are still not well understood.At two different sites with sugar maple (Acer saccharum), we investigated ascending sap (sugar concen...
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How do trees survive being frozen? Trees enter a dehydrated, dormant state to survive the winter since less water means less expansion when freezing. Some trees produce more sugar in preparation for winter, and when the sugar dissolves in the water, it lowers the water’s freezing point and ...
Maple trees are propagated from seeds. Most often, we go to the garden store to select young maple trees for our yards. But, some people prefer to start them from seeds. Is that you? Then, here is how you do it…….. Starting maple trees from seeds: ...