We don't buy Christmas trees, but our neighbors all do, so I've gone around every year and hauled the discarded trees back to my garden and done things like this. I was rather stuck on how to use the trunks, since they're too thick to use as stakes, and I could only lay them out as bed borders. However, this past year I sawed them into 3 ft (~90 cm) segments and embedded them vertically in the ground to make a palisade wall around a raised bed.
A few years now I have gone around to my fellow townies and collected their old Christmas trees. I use the trunks as sides to my beds, the branches to keep cats off of my veggies and overwintering plants, and also as filling in the bottom of new beds. I even had an article about me in the local newspaper describing this practice. I've become a bit of a celebrity garden gnome because of it lol It's all in great fun when I come with what looks like a tree on a leash. :D
we have a neighborhood forested with pine trees, as they've bought them in containers, and planted them. After 10 years, it's so beautiful, especially when the light (solar) and decorate them, esp with bird food and fruit, along with reflective decorations with the lights. Magical. Another friend, gets their fruit and decorative trees 7 bushes, in containers, decorate them, then plant them and enjoy the fruit. Really good idea for children.
I wish more people would do Living Christmas Trees. If you don't want to replant on your property, which would be an amazing tradition, there are companies that will pick it up and take it to be planted somewhere that's being reforested.
Or get a small one and keep it in pots for five to ten years easily enough before it gets too big. Live outside most of the year but bring it in for Christmas.
We had a big windstorm in the PNW in November. Evergreen branches all over our yards. I had the kids bring them all to me and I used them to cover the dahlia beds. It was a fun activity for everyone, especially when the power was out. I was happy to have help and the kids had something to do.
That storm was something, that’s for sure. I’m hoping you guys didn’t have too much damage? We were alright but I know neighbors had trees go through cars and roofs.
Hey Kevin! Awesome information here! I’ve used the hugelkultur method in my raised garden beds by filling them with logs branches leaves etc and it was hugely successful! Love the additional ideas here!
Hope that you and Jacques and all your crew have enjoyed a wonderful holiday season! Definitely looking forward to the new year and already making plans on how to have an even better garden next year.
I like to turn my tree into walking stick I do cut all the branches off then I have to let it dry for a year because they help to become much lighter and I sand it down to make it easyer to hold
Hi Kevin, Sam here. Am from India and am a big fan of your Chanel. I am a big permaculture fan and have been practicing it for a few years now.. keep doing what you doing and hopefully we can work together one day.
Christmas day (as in 25th of December) is over the actual Christmas season goes til February 2nd and remember the 12 Days of Christmas starts ON CHRISTMAS not before it. The problem with society is they celebrate Christmas a month in advance and instead of being patient they cannot wait and party and exhaust themselves before it even starts. We just started celebrating Christmas. So wait to do this great advice after the Christmas season. Merry Christmas Epic family!
Love all these ideas what a great video. If I ever decide to buy a live Christmas tree again, I will definitely recycle it back into my garden. The birdhouse post is brilliant! 💙💚💛🧡💜 Liz
Ironically, the town where I live collects old X-mas trees to mulch, and they use the mulch in all the parks and city-owned flower beds throughout the year (or until it runs out for the year).
Be careful cutting wet wood on chop/miter saws. I came really close to disaster doing that. The saw grabbed the wood and flung it to the right with my hand still gripping a log. Very lucky I didn't get cut. I googled it after and it's not recommended for wet wood on those saws. Much better to use a band saw.
Finally someone finally made some sense! I don't know makes SO much sense! Humanity goes bananas over something unknown - however we've put airplanes, space stations, satellites and other junk above our heads to compete with the stars, meteorites and other observable phenomena. A lot of which we still don't know about, or we think we know about but are still learning about. Thank you Hank for helping those who are scared/frustrated/angry, etc.
@@plantspit518 I leave mine outside after I’m finished with it inside and my local deer eat it. I don’t mind as they are very hungry this time of year. I use what they leave in similar ways after the snow melts (usually mid March for me).
You took your tree down the day after Christmas??😱😱😱😱😱 It’s too early! In all seriousness though, it’s your tree so you can do whatever you want🙃 Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!! A Savior has come to save us from our sins-God be praised!!
I'm so glad I don't put up the tree, them getting chopped up for literally no good reason is one of the saddest things in the world... and no, buying them with root ball isn't much better, as most people don't have enough space to plant decades worth of xmas trees, and last year, I saw a potted xmas tree next to a garbage container in may, it was hardly green at that point
We don't buy Christmas trees, but our neighbors all do, so I've gone around every year and hauled the discarded trees back to my garden and done things like this. I was rather stuck on how to use the trunks, since they're too thick to use as stakes, and I could only lay them out as bed borders. However, this past year I sawed them into 3 ft (~90 cm) segments and embedded them vertically in the ground to make a palisade wall around a raised bed.
A few years now I have gone around to my fellow townies and collected their old Christmas trees. I use the trunks as sides to my beds, the branches to keep cats off of my veggies and overwintering plants, and also as filling in the bottom of new beds. I even had an article about me in the local newspaper describing this practice. I've become a bit of a celebrity garden gnome because of it lol It's all in great fun when I come with what looks like a tree on a leash. :D
we have a neighborhood forested with pine trees, as they've bought them in containers, and planted them. After 10 years, it's so beautiful, especially when the light (solar) and decorate them, esp with bird food and fruit, along with reflective decorations with the lights. Magical. Another friend, gets their fruit and decorative trees 7 bushes, in containers, decorate them, then plant them and enjoy the fruit. Really good idea for children.
I wish more people would do Living Christmas Trees. If you don't want to replant on your property, which would be an amazing tradition, there are companies that will pick it up and take it to be planted somewhere that's being reforested.
What a great idea!
Or get a small one and keep it in pots for five to ten years easily enough before it gets too big. Live outside most of the year but bring it in for Christmas.
We had a big windstorm in the PNW in November. Evergreen branches all over our yards. I had the kids bring them all to me and I used them to cover the dahlia beds. It was a fun activity for everyone, especially when the power was out. I was happy to have help and the kids had something to do.
That storm was something, that’s for sure. I’m hoping you guys didn’t have too much damage?
We were alright but I know neighbors had trees go through cars and roofs.
A tip for your coasters, cut them at a slight angle. Cutting across some of the grain like this will prevent them from crumbling and falling apart.
Love ❤ it! Three years ago, I started my raised beds with over 130 Christmas 🎄 trees gathered from the curbs in my neighborhood.
Rhubarb also kicks harder with acidic compost
Apple scraps (& rotten ones) are helpful.
Hey Kevin! Awesome information here! I’ve used the hugelkultur method in my raised garden beds by filling them with logs branches leaves etc and it was hugely successful! Love the additional ideas here!
Ok, if they're sprayed with toxic chemicals, isn't that also going to make them risky for adding as a hugelkultur base or as mulch?
He said if you know your tree is safe, you can do this. So be careful of the ones that are sprayed
I use Christmas tree branches to cover my rose bushes here in my 6a/7b PA garden.
Merry Christmas Kevin!! and a wonderful mulch perfect for Christmas after celebrating Christmas using the Christmas tree !
Hope that you and Jacques and all your crew have enjoyed a wonderful holiday season! Definitely looking forward to the new year and already making plans on how to have an even better garden next year.
I like to turn my tree into walking stick I do cut all the branches off then I have to let it dry for a year because they help to become much lighter and I sand it down to make it easyer to hold
Hi Kevin, Sam here. Am from India and am a big fan of your Chanel. I am a big permaculture fan and have been practicing it for a few years now.. keep doing what you doing and hopefully we can work together one day.
Christmas day (as in 25th of December) is over the actual Christmas season goes til February 2nd and remember the 12 Days of Christmas starts ON CHRISTMAS not before it. The problem with society is they celebrate Christmas a month in advance and instead of being patient they cannot wait and party and exhaust themselves before it even starts. We just started celebrating Christmas. So wait to do this great advice after the Christmas season. Merry Christmas Epic family!
Maybe we are correct and you are celebrating wrong?
Oh, I looked it up, you are Catholic?
I've always thought it was strange to throw trees in the trash.
How can I tell if the tree has been sprayed?
Love all these ideas what a great video. If I ever decide to buy a live Christmas tree again, I will definitely recycle it back into my garden. The birdhouse post is brilliant! 💙💚💛🧡💜 Liz
Love that yellow Mexican marigolds/ tagetes behind you. They are spectacular this time of year all over CA.
Merry Christmas 🎄 hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas 🎄
Hey we take others discarded trees and use piles for the birdies to hide in when the Coopers Hawks show up.
Love it. So many ideas. Well done.
Thanks brother merry Christmas
A lot of good ideas here. I am fortunate to have a large chipper/shredder that makes quick mulch out of the tree, as well as neighbors trees. 😀
Wowzer! So many wonderful ideas! Thank you!
So soon? Its only the third day of Christmas😂
Great video - you mentioned that the acidity of the pine isn't an issue after it's dried? Does that go for any pine tree variety?
❤❤❤ Merry Christmas and New Year❤❤❤
Ironically, the town where I live collects old X-mas trees to mulch, and they use the mulch in all the parks and city-owned flower beds throughout the year (or until it runs out for the year).
What about inoculating the thicker part of the trunk with mushroom spawn? Is that the right kind of wood?
In Germany, christmas trees get collected communaly and are composted.
A mulch of spiky branches also prevents cats from pooping there!
I’m sorry. I hate that.
Oh wow that is so true! That’s a great addition to good reason for recycling a tree in your garden beds. 👍👍👍 Liz
Happy New Year!
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How are you
On coaster size cut a slit ,but not all the way through and use to place picture of the party celebrant.
Be careful cutting wet wood on chop/miter saws. I came really close to disaster doing that. The saw grabbed the wood and flung it to the right with my hand still gripping a log. Very lucky I didn't get cut. I googled it after and it's not recommended for wet wood on those saws. Much better to use a band saw.
100%. Not a good idea
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Could you strip or shake the needles off for mulch or compost?
Can you use logs for fireplace once dried ?
Finally someone finally made some sense! I don't know makes SO much sense! Humanity goes bananas over something unknown - however we've put airplanes, space stations, satellites and other junk above our heads to compete with the stars, meteorites and other observable phenomena. A lot of which we still don't know about, or we think we know about but are still learning about.
Thank you Hank for helping those who are scared/frustrated/angry, etc.
I love your videos❤❤❤❤
How do you deal with the rats that are attracted to the bird food? Also how do you deal with gophers? Thanks! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
You’re going to buy me 27 acres? Why thanks?! 😂❤
I know ZooTampa near me actually accepts trees to give certain animals enrichment.
If the tree isn't sprayed, I'd use some of the needles to make Pine Sol.
Like Christmas tree
We chipped a tree, and did not understand that those chips need to be cured. They attracted tons of termites and carpenter ants. It was a bad move.
instead of garden gnomes, how about some epic garden totems peppered around the grounds?
Brilliant video! It’s too bad I never bought the real thing! ❤😂
Great information 🫡⛄🌲
clever ideas
This is nice but it's freezing so I'm not trying to be outside like that 🥶
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😂 same, but I still want to try this, the struggle is real 😭
You can just leave the whole tree outside in the back for now and when it’s warmer you can come back out to deal with it?
@@plantspit518 I leave mine outside after I’m finished with it inside and my local deer eat it. I don’t mind as they are very hungry this time of year. I use what they leave in similar ways after the snow melts (usually mid March for me).
“Sou”etttt” haha!
Christmas is not over until Jan 6th!!!
Keep that tree up and keep stuffing your faces!
IS THERE A WAY TO GET A TREE TO SPROUT ROOTS?? ❤
Yes of course Ma/am
@GeorgeMoore-eh1kr What is it?? Please Sir, I want some new roots! 🤣🤣🤣
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Why would you throw Christmas trees away this early? It's not even NewYear yet. Christmas lasts at least until january the 6th?
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You took your tree down the day after Christmas??😱😱😱😱😱 It’s too early!
In all seriousness though, it’s your tree so you can do whatever you want🙃
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!
A Savior has come to save us from our sins-God be praised!!
I'm so glad I don't put up the tree, them getting chopped up for literally no good reason is one of the saddest things in the world... and no, buying them with root ball isn't much better, as most people don't have enough space to plant decades worth of xmas trees, and last year, I saw a potted xmas tree next to a garbage container in may, it was hardly green at that point