Learn when, why, and how to prune a Japanese maple to keep your tree healthy and beautiful. When to Prune Japanese Maple Trees. Do the bulk of Japanese maple pruning in the late winter or early ...

Q: I’d like to plant a tree this fall in an area that was formerly a gravel driveway. The gravel goes down about 8 inches. The clay-ey soil beneath it doesn’t seem terribly compacted.

What the industry and us backyard maple tree tappers need is a six- to eight-week period with robust freeze-thaw cycles. Typically, we might have a couple of days in January when temperatures top ...

Mar. 14—COPENHAGEN — For many maple syrup producers this year, getting the sap flowing required lots of sweat equity as they trudged through snow. It's the opposite from last year, which saw a ...

People who say they don’t like maple trees invariably like this maple tree. Learn how to plant a Japanese maple tree in your own yard, and you'll soon understand why. These maples are compact ...

Maple syrup season is highly dependent on the weather and this winter is providing a head start.There is only a 4-to-6 ... There is only a 4-to-6-week window that tapping can happen on maple trees.

Using numbers from the 2019 "sugaring season," Kapitko said he collected 14,000 gallons of sap and produced 235 gallons of syrup. "We normally collect 12-14,000 gallons.

Maple syrup timing in New York. The ideal conditions to get the sweet sap from sugar maple trees flowing is 25 degrees at night and 45 degrees during the day, where the sap freezes at night and ...

This year’s record-warm winter has thrown the family practice for a loop, though. The company tapped its thousands of maple trees on Jan. 22 — 22 days earlier than ever before — to endure ...