Keep your maples healthy & hearty by learning to recognize common maple tree diseases & knowing how to prevent or treat them ...

A really friendly sugar maple tree may yield sap that is almost 5% sugar by volume. This is potent enough to really taste the sweetness in each drop of sap. Other trees, however, just aren’t ...

Don't get your hopes up for syrup soon after planting a sugar maple. The tree must be 40-50 years old ... They turn shades of orange, red and yellow in the fall. The bark is gray and scaly with ...

You don't have to miss out on the stunning beauty of maple trees just because you have a compact yard. Consider these maple species for your small garden.

A young sugar maple tree as seen in the forest in late March. Note the bark being stripped by gray squirrels to get to the sap beneath.

If the sugar content is 3 percent, we would only need 28.6 gallons of sap. The yield of sap varies from tree to tree, and is also dependent on weather. On average, the sap collected from one tree will ...

On one old sugar maple—they can live up to 400 years—I found nestled beneath the bark a hibernating “spring peeper,” the diminutive tree frog (the size of a paperclip, weighing less than ...

Sugar maple trees have leaves that look the the one on the Canadian flag, branches and twigs that grow in opposite directions, light gray and peeling bark, and reddish-brown buds.

Environmental students at Keystone College call it bark to bottle: tap the tree, boil the sap, and bottle the syrup, but this year, there wasn't much of the process.

It might have been Dave Amerikaner’s first time tapping a sugar maple tree, but even as an amateur, he could tell the fast-flowing stream was a lot of sap. Sap was falling from branches, running ...

Environmental students at Keystone College call it bark to bottle: tap the tree, boil the sap, and bottle the syrup, but this year, there wasn't much of the process.