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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
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 Posted - Jan 02 2010 : 07:24:27 AM
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We still get a live tree - not such a green thing to do.
Normally we haul the tree out to the alley and our town sends a special truck out to pick them up. They then get mulched up and recycled.
This year we're going to stand our tree up by my feeding station for the birds to hide in.
Not sure what we'll do with it in the spring. Firewood perhaps?
What are you doing with your tree?
Farm Girl #790
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
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Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Jan 02 2010 : 08:12:08 AM
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If you have a cut tree, save until spring, let all needles fall off, use in veggy garden to support vines from beans etc, you can do the same with fake trees.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lisa
Georgetown
OH
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Posted - Jan 02 2010 : 08:55:01 AM
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prairie_princess
True Blue Farmgirl
613 Posts
Elizabeth
Carpenter
WY
USA
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Posted - Jan 02 2010 : 1:56:33 PM
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Hubby says they are good for compost, add many good nutrients to the soil... we are hoping next year to buy a potted tree, use it as our Christmas tree, and then plant it in the yard.
"Only two things that money can't buy, that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."
- Guy Clark
"The man who has planted a garden feels he has done something for the good of the world."
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Hosanna
True Blue Farmgirl
466 Posts
Hosanna
Alton
Virginia
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Posted - Jan 02 2010 : 5:28:05 PM
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Actually, live Christmas trees are a very green thing to do. They're better than fake ones that end up in landfills and take 100 years to decompose.
Live Christmas trees are planted as a crop for the purpose of cutting down later; and planting the trees is of course excellent for the environment. The cut ones are replaced by new plantings year after year so it is quite "green". I am a firm believer in live Christmas trees, and other forestry issues....
As for recycling them - goats eat them, I give mine to the neighbor's goats. My husband says his mother, who raises sheep and goats, collected the trees leftover from tree lots, and fed them to her flocks, and they loved it. If you know someone with goats, give it a try.
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Jan 02 2010 : 6:57:03 PM
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Here in SW Louisiana, Christmas trees are collected to be put in our marshes, to stop erosion. We will need a hole lot of old trees to stop our erosion.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2010 : 05:59:56 AM
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Thanks ladies! I never thought of it that way. I guess I won't feel so bad about our live tree from now on. We'll keep using it up in this manner. I think I will keep it for the garden. I plant Mexican gerkins that really take over the garden. The tree would be just the thing for that plant.
Since we live in the city, we don't know of anyone with goats around here. Too bad. We would love some pygmy's though!
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Recycling the Christmas tree
