Comments on: The Secret to Tapping Your Trees at the Right Time https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/ Simple living, homesteading, & making real food, conveniently Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michelle https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-2/#comment-4594 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:32:43 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-4594 In reply to WT Abernathy.

Good for you!!! We haven’t done a darn thing to be prepared yet… but it will be here before we know it!

]]> By: WT Abernathy https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-2/#comment-4514 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:00:34 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-4514 Great to see this article resurface again:)
Zone 5 old timers tend to generalize around Valentine’s Day, but its all about the stretch of above freezing dropping to below freezing- hope you have a great season! Our pails and taps are prepped and ready:)

Cheers!

]]> By: Michelle https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-2/#comment-1285 Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:01:28 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-1285 In reply to Andrea Z.

Andrea, it sounds like you’re doing everything right. Crazy enough there are some factors we can never figure out from year to year with why some trees choose to not produce, produce less, or maybe just start producing later in the season. Hope you’ve found more productive trees and are making lots of yummy syrup!

]]> By: Andrea Z https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-2/#comment-1208 Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:32:16 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-1208 I just found your website yesterday and have been reading lots. I tapped two trees for the first time last year. Just a few hours ago I tapped the same two again. I tried to stay several inches over and a foot up from the last hole. The first tree started dripping right away and had a cup or so of sap within 10-15 minutes. The second tree – bone dry. I tried a new tree. Also bone dry. The wood looked light and healthy. All three holes were on the sunny side of the tree. Here in Minnesota we are having a nice run of weather. Any ideas why the one tree and not the others?

]]> By: Lisa Lombardo https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-2/#comment-890 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:04:23 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-890 Great info…I love real maple syrup. Wish I had trees to tap! Congrats on being featured on the Simple Homestead hop!

]]> By: Lesa https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-1/#comment-889 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:34:08 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-889 Thanks for sharing on the Homestead Blog Hop!

]]> By: WT Abernathy https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-1/#comment-886 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:54:47 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-886 We sure will:)

]]> By: Michelle https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-1/#comment-885 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:31:33 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-885 In reply to WT Abernathy.

You will totally wish you had done it YEARS ago!! Let me know how it goes and definitely make some Maple Switchel with your sap. (https://soulyrested.com/2018/05/08/probiotic-drink-maple-syrup-may-even-hit-kids/)

]]> By: WT Abernathy https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:04:51 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-884 Hi!
After years of hmmm’ing and hawing, this will be the year we tap our trees. It’s about 50 degrees now, and though we’ll be right back in the deep freeze soon enough, we’re planning our taps.
Cheers!

]]> By: Sarita https://soulyrested.com/the-secret-to-tapping-your-trees-at-the-right-time/comment-page-1/#comment-882 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:51:54 +0000 https://soulyrested.com/?p=13762#comment-882 Great piece Michelle! As a child I experimented with tapping maple trees in Ontario Canada – usually during the first week of March. Now that I live up in Canada’s far north – (Northwest Territories), it’s a good month later – April. We’ll be tapping birch trees this year as well, but it takes many more birches to get the same amount of syrup. Love your site – found you through the Homestead Blog Hop!

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