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Hi all,
Just looking to see how everyone is feeling in Eastern Ontario with the weather being so mild. I'm thinking not gonna be a super duper maple season?
Being a novice tapper, I'm looking for opinions on this from the more seasoned folks. Gonna try to squeeze what I can from our sugar bush regardless, prob won't be another 2015 though😂
Regards,
Lesley
one thing about maple syrup is you never know what kind of season it will be till its over! We are still working away with adding 1500 taps and addition to the sugar house.
Keep the faith!!
Ian
90% of maple yield is dependent on the weather only during the maple season.....everything else is irrelevant.
Agreed! Remember 2014? We boiled once before March 31 and figured we were screwed. The next 2 weeks were crazy and we ended up with slightly better than an average crop.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmayerl
All you can do is be ready to tap and boil if the weather dictates it is time. No sense worrying about things we cannot change.
That's very good news then, I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens late February early March. Good luck everyone, hope it's a great year!
Hey Lesley, you little keener you :-)
Have NOOOOO idea at all what to expect this year. But fwiw I'm not expecting another 2014/2015 season when ridiculous cold and vast amounts of snow meant a ton o' sap. Will set my taps probably early March and go from there.
Can't wait for the season the begin, not sure what it will be like this year, hopefully its good, because I'm out of syrup !!!!
Thought I'd check in to see who's pushing the panic button. Lesley, you win the prize. :lol: I'm looking forward to another great season. Hang in there everyone. Enjoy the peace and quiet while you've got it!
P.S. Hope you had a great holiday with your new, and instant, little family Al. :)
Thanks Karen , it was definitely different this year having them here. Had a few small issue's but in the end the smile's on their faces made it all worth it.It has definitely been a learning curve for all of us and a struggle. The older boy has some major issue's that we were not told about, so the older boy, mom and dad are in therapy. Ok enough about that.... lets talk tap'em and sap'em :)
Went and looked at last year's spile holes, esp the smaller ones cause I tried those awful plastic spiles last year. As so many of those little blue bastards just fell out of the hole I had to replace all of them eventually. Anyway, absolutely no noticeable difference with regards to how well the hole healed up. Some of my trees' holes have already healed up at least halfway, regardless of spile size, and other trees have holes from the last 2-3 years that are barely closed up. So for my bush it's all about the tree, not the spile.