The right time to fertilize your Japanese maple tree depends on your winter climate. Japanese maple trees require a period of dormancy for optimum health and performance. Japanese maple trees do not ...

Japanese maple trees (Acer palmatum) add interest to your landscape all year long. Their delicate palmate leaves form a lace-like canopy in vibrant shades of green, bronze, red, orange, and purple ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 14—COPENHAGEN — For many maple syrup producers this year, getting the sap flowing required lots of sweat equity as they ...

It’s been a pretty great winter, but we’re transitioning into a new time of year that’s much beloved: maple syrup season. Maple producers are rooting for a strong harvest. Adam Wild, who directs ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

Open a thin dish towel on a wooden cutting board. Lay your leaf sandwich — preferably including a leaf specifically selected by the hand of a child and carefully placed between two sheets of wax paper ...

Our warm winter is impacting many things around the state — but what is its effect on the maple syrup industry? Maple syruping normally occurs in March and April, but the recent warmth has accelerated ...

The Martins began tapping in January, much earlier than the traditional sugaring season start. Warming winters have shifted the timing and length of maple sugaring season in Wisconsin, the ...

Here's how to plant a Japanese maple tree and keep it thriving for years to come.

Q.: My Japanese maple is about 20 years old now. The trunk is divided and I have thought of securing the two trunks together with something because of the extra weight of snow and ice in the winter.

Every winter, John Cermak and his family drill holes into 2,200 maple trees on their 45-acre farm. They hammer steel spouts into those holes, and then they wait. “The ideal weather for us is when it ...