Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Christmas tree placement and care
You learned all about the different types of Christmas trees on yesterdays Garden Bite. Today is about caring for your fresh tree.
FIRST know WHERE you’ll place your tree so you can measure the area.
You may think you’re good at eyeballing it, but once that baby’s in the house, you don’t want to cut it! Seriously, friends did this. Their tree was way too large for their home. Let’s just say that this nightmare involved a chainsaw indoors! They were cleaning up after THAT for years.
- Keep your tree away from heat sources like registers, tv sets, computers, fireplaces and space heaters. This will speed up evaporation, cause moisture loss, needle drop and a major fire hazard!
- Before bringing your tree indoors, cut a half inch slice off the bottom of the trunk to reopen the tree to take up water. They tend to seal back up when exposed to air. (most nurseries will do this for you)
- Have an appropriate size water stand ready and waiting with warm tap water. No need to add anything to it.
- Keep an eye on the water level and never let it get below the cut of the tree or it will seal up again and you’ll lose the tree much quicker.
- Check your local nurseries or tree farms for fresh Christmas trees
When I was a kid, mom always put on her Gene Autry Christmas album while we decorated the tree.
