Originally Posted by
Bruce L
Galena, let's not think of the taxman for awhile!!!!!!! We tapped another bush this morning in the freezing rain, got soaked to the hide!!!! Sap started running late this afternoon while I was hooking the pans together, hooked the vacuum lines up to the releasers, anything to get done and stay undercover
Ah, may as well just get it over with while it's still quiet here...we all know how quickly it can turn around! BTW I would love to come and visit your bush sometime, definitely interested to see what I can learn from a 6th generation sugarer!
ETA: Decided to at least pretend I'm sugaring...batch #2 from last year has big fat crystals in it, and is from my trees anyway, so loosened them with some distilled water and chucked it into the current 2l batch of nearup from my trees this year. I once did let a jar of nearup go a little too long, and got that horrible ropey slime..ugh!
And I've got a shot glass here, 50% batch #2 my syrup and 50% Jameson...I'm happy...*hic* ;-)
Last edited by Galena; 03-14-2015 at 08:55 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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