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Heavy Maple Pollen/Seeds Year in Southern Missouri

 
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I looked up at the maple trees today, oooh that's a lot of pollen, they are loaded for bear. And it's only mid-March.

I'm predicting at least Southern Missouri will have a BAD allergy to maple season, and a HEAVY seed helicopter season.

Are you stocked up with whatever you need? I do nasal irrigation, so I'm always ready for things, nothing to buy that isn't in the kitchen.

Maple seeds are edible, taste ok, need spicing up. They work well if you treat them like hulled pumpkin seeds. I think they are annoying to shuck, but I have little patience and might not be accurate  :D  

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I've only eaten them once or twice, big fat silver maple seeds.  I think I baked them a while in the solar cooker. They fell in such abundance from this one tree that I was wondering to myself how to preserve them, or gather them in bulk for chickens.  Perhaps simply smashing them and drying in the sun, and let the chickens peck out the seed meats?  I've done this with things like excess pecans, and acorns too, after leaching the mash.
 
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Pearl, things are not as far along here in central Virginia (lat 37.32 N).  A few select maples in the woods are showing some red blush.

It was near 75F today and the forecast is for these higher temps all week. So it won't be long, I don't have much problem until all the oaks in the area get going.  

My only really bad allergy still seems to be redheads !!!

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Although maple trees shed tens of thousands of seeds all these years, I rarely see any saplings growing more than a foot tall in areas unattended at tall. I guess landscape maples can't survive the native high acidic high aluminum low fertility soil where eastern red cedars and oaks are abundant. Garden soil is rich and more neutral in pH and the maples seedlings are happier.

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I didn't manage to get covers anywhere on my garden beds. T
he maple helicopters have an awesome germination rate  :(  
There are thousands of baby trees...
I mowed places I don't usually just to kill the maple seedlings.

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Up here in the Northeast, in New York, my manitoba maples are HEAVY with seeds.



Ohh boy!

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Timothy Norton wrote:Up here in the Northeast, in New York, my manitoba maples are HEAVY with seeds.

Ohh boy!



Cover any of your garden beds you can.
I failed at that this year, and am paying a heavy price for it.

The seeds are technically edible. Mom peeled us some,we tasted them raw, nope, toasted them in stuff like pumpkin seeds, that worked. Mom said she's not hungry enough to peel maple seeds, so it's not happening

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Pearl Sutton wrote: Cover any of your garden beds you can.
I failed at that this year, and am paying a heavy price for it.



What do you mean?

Congratulations on opening your brand new tree nursery!

I kid, thank you for the suggestion I will make sure to try my best to avoid it!

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