Comments on: Make Your Own Maple Syrup (part 2)

By: SUSAN GODDEN

SUSAN GODDEN — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:55:23 +0000

Wonderful article and photos. Well done!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 19:11:21 +0000

In reply to Connie. Hi Connie. While you may not get enough sap to make a full jar of syrup, you may get a few cups full to enjoy drinking, if nothing else. It's delicious to drink straight from the tree. Cool filtered water that is LOADED with antioxidants. If you get even more than a few cups but not 5 gallons, you could try making Maple Switchel (the recipe is in my Resource Library), which is a natural kind of Gatorade. I would absolutely put a few taps in your beloved tree this winter, before you move, and check your bucket on those days that you went below freezing at night and up to the 40s in the day. Just a few days in a row of those conditions very well may offer you some delicious sap.

By: Connie

Connie — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:19:28 +0000

I have one single silver maple tree and we’re at the southern end of the Texas panhandle. It’s been said by the man who trimmed and saved it when it had carpenter ants in the past that they don’t usually survive here so ours with almost a 2ft diameter trunk has fought to make it here. I was looking at the temperature requirements for tapping and I never could find a time that seemed right. We go from highs in the 50’s one week to a day or 2 in the 70’s and then 2 or 3 days in the 40’s. It never is very consistent. It also didn’t always get below freezing every night. Does it need to be more consistent? It is almost always this wild from day to day except in the blast of summer. We’re also about to move so I won’t have this big tree anymore. I just wanted to make enough for us to say hey, we’ve had maple from our own tree but at 5 gal to get a pint, I wonder if with our weather we’d even get a Tbsp…. any advice would be appreciated.