5%?! this early in the season, for real? wow....
ETA: re boiling buckets of ice...keep in mind I have a microbush of 6 trees. Anyway what I do with frozen is fill kitchen sink about 2/3 full with warm water and immerse buckets of sap (with a spare collection pail under spile while doing so) and try to let it thaw out. I guess I could also just stand the buckets atop my cast-iron woodstove but afraid of warping them.
Last edited by Galena; 03-05-2017 at 06:14 PM.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
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