Thursday, December 19, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
SKIP THE FAKE TREE AND BUY A SMALL PLANTABLE LIVE TREE INSTEAD
What to do about a Christmas tree when you want to BUY AMERICAN? Buy a LIVING PALATABLE TREE!
Really, all the fake plastic trees are a landfill nightmare and a biodegradability nightmare and a rarely made in the USA. A live cut tree that was grown to be harvested is next best. That tree should not go to a bonfire. It should go to a city or other pick up that grinds the tree up and turns it into mulch.
WE NEED TO BE CONCERNED FOR THE EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT!
Here is the HOW TO PLANT from Better Homes and Gardens!
CHRISTMAS TREE PLANTING - BHG
"The key to success is timing. Purchase the tree as close to Christmas as possible, and keep in indoors for as brief a time as you can. It is also important to prepare a planting spot outdoors before the ground freezes so hard you can't dig."
Now, we grew up with the tradition of buying and planting live and didn't have a problem at all. We actually didn't dig a hole or worry about how long the tree was on the back porch. The tree roots should have dirt around them and be bound in burlap. Then it was left outside on the cold porch in a cardboard box, not where the snow drifts could get it. Soon as the ground unfroze we planted.
And every tree we planted took root and grew much bigger!
A better fate than old Charlie Brown' tree wouldn't you say?
Really, all the fake plastic trees are a landfill nightmare and a biodegradability nightmare and a rarely made in the USA. A live cut tree that was grown to be harvested is next best. That tree should not go to a bonfire. It should go to a city or other pick up that grinds the tree up and turns it into mulch.
WE NEED TO BE CONCERNED FOR THE EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT!
Here is the HOW TO PLANT from Better Homes and Gardens!
CHRISTMAS TREE PLANTING - BHG
"The key to success is timing. Purchase the tree as close to Christmas as possible, and keep in indoors for as brief a time as you can. It is also important to prepare a planting spot outdoors before the ground freezes so hard you can't dig."
Now, we grew up with the tradition of buying and planting live and didn't have a problem at all. We actually didn't dig a hole or worry about how long the tree was on the back porch. The tree roots should have dirt around them and be bound in burlap. Then it was left outside on the cold porch in a cardboard box, not where the snow drifts could get it. Soon as the ground unfroze we planted.
And every tree we planted took root and grew much bigger!
A better fate than old Charlie Brown' tree wouldn't you say?
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