Maple info

I just happened to come across this -

Some maples (sugar) are more desirable than others (Norway)

Maybe someone would find it informative.

 

Is a good read..

 

Norway: Not only is the canopy dense blocking light making it difficult for anything to survive under it, the root system is just as dense, especially so at the surface, so it's a double whammy for any seeds unfortunate to sprout under it.

In the fifities our town government, using state funds, provided trees along streets where either elm trees had died from dutch elm disease or where lots had been cleared and houses built. Of course they provided the recommended Norway maples because they grew fast. Now all the property lines are populated with Norway maples from those tree's seeds . Most of the Norway maples originally planted along the streets are long gone because no one could grow nice lawns under them.
You can't import, buy or sell them now in Ma.

 

Norway maple is considered an invasive species in most places these days.

 

I'd love to get a bunch of Norway to plant in my field. They grow fast enough I'd coppice them before they seeded to have sustainable firewood for when I'm older so I don't have to travel or do tree work like I do now. I like the way it burns.

 

I don't think I've ever had a Norway maple grow back after I cut it down. The stumps have rotted PDQ too.
Although I do have a younger one I cut all the branches off of with a handsaw as it was shading a rhododendron leaving a six foot tall trunk and it has resprouted all along the trunk.

 

I have a Norway maple growing on side of my yard about 3 inch diameter. Think I should make firewood out of that pretty quickly.

 

Sounds like a good idea!

 

Are you on the two or three year plan with your kindling too?

 

Very much so here. Any maple of that kind silver or Norway just grows in epic propagation. Black locust is something that rivals this but these maples just burst out in sprouts like a dandelion “wish”, they just get crazy hard to control if you don’t cut them at the right time.

 

Oh ya that dry maple is nice stuff, i keep those rounds whole all the time for burning ( about half the size of a roll of paper towels is the biggest i go) ya the kindling is awesome

 

I sold 2 truckloads of wood yesterday and made the guy a milk crate full of maple kindling. He was stoked, he was also new wood burner and picking my brain for tips on burning the stove. I was happy to help, he took me into his apartment and showed me the stove. Fischer all nighter in a tiny apartment, i said your gonna be chillin in your boxers all winter. It was rainy and chilly yesterday and i get a txt from him later on and he says its hot as balls in his apartment rt now. I got a good chuckle

 

It may be a weed, but I'll take Norway maple for firewood any day.

Same with black locust.

 

But no pics of himself in boxers.....

 

Amen on both. Let it propagate, cut it down often. If I did have a big yard this is likely what I’d hope for.