Northeast Gardening: what type of tree do you put up?, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
We bring the tree home and put it in a bucket of water and then untie it for a few weeks outside. Then just before we bring it into the house we give it a fresh cut. and re-wrap it up in a big blue plastic tarp to bring it in the house, so it doesn't make a mess or scratch the walls on the way in.

After Christmas we put the same blue plastic tarp on the floor around the base of the tree and then cut about 1/2 the branches off and wrap them up and take them out in the tarp, then we do it all over again. No mess, no scratched walls. Then we drill holes in the left over trunk and fill them with Peanut butter and hang it up in a big pine for the birds. They love it.

Here was a big Oops that we had a few years ago at our house. This year we will be in Vt and so we can just pitch the tree out of the second floor sliding glass doors out into the woods. I will take the ornaments off first. Patti