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Why Buy A Living Christmas Tree?

why buy a living christmas tree?

If you are planning to add an evergreen tree to your landscape, you can buy one now, use it as a Christmas tree, then plant it outside. Support the ecology movement by planting a tree and watching it grow. A live tree will be more aromatic, stays fresher and will not dry out making it a safer tree.

Care of your living Christmas tree before taking it indoors

1. Put the tree in a protected area such as a garage so that the rootball will not freeze or leave the tree outside and cover the rootball with an old rug, straw, leaves or other mulch material.

2. Tree does not have to be watered during this time.

Care of your living Christmas tree indoors

1. Various containers can be used for your living Christmas tree. One of the best is the saucer sled; it can be easliy scooted around until you have the position you desire. Also, any metal or plastic container or basket can be used.

2. It is not absolutely necessary for the tree to be watered, but it would be best to keep one inch of water in the bottom of the container.

3. Your tree should not be kept indoors more that ten days.

Planting your living Christmas tree

1. Since the gound may be frozen after the holidays, select the spot where you'll want to plant the tree soon after bringing it home. Dig the hole right away, placing the soil removed from the hole in a container and place it in the garage.

Or, select the spot where you'll want to plant the tree and cover with leaves, straw, wood chips or other mulch material. Cover this with burlap to keep it from blowing away. This cover will prevent the ground from freezing if the temperature should drop.

Or, if the ground has frozen and you did not prepare the ground beforehand, the tree roots can be kept protected by mulching the root ball completely until the ground thaws. Don't expose the roots or they'll dry out and die. Stand the burlapped earth ball in a tub and pack damp soil or peat moss around it.

2. When it's time to plant, leave the burlap on being careful not to disturb the root system. Set earth ball into the ground so that the top of ball is slightly above ground level. Fill the hole with good topsoil. Mixing topsoil with soil to hold moisture is very good. Firm soil around tree. Use 2-3 inches of mulch. Tree should be staked so that winds will not blow it over.