Some Green Ideas for Your Old Christmas Trees!

There is no need in just chunking that tree into the landfill. Those trees provided us with many of our natural needs while alive and it can be just as use full dead. That is unless you buy a live tree to begin with. Live trees are a bit more expensive up front but can make a nice addition to your home or you can donate to a community or landscape in need. Think about it! Now back to the old trees whoms lives were sacrificed for our enjoyment.
1) Habitats for wildlife! Two or three in a pond or lake makes a wonderful home for fish. Strip all the limbs but a couple to hang bird feeders or leave the limbs and add food for squirrels.
2) Make firewood! The small limbs and bark make fantastic kindling. Strip off needles or at least as many as you can first. The wood makes fantastic fire wood and makes the house smell great.(pine)
3) Make a habitat for vine climbing plants! eg Clematis or Morning Glory. Just sink the trunk in the ground and the rest is left to your imagination. You can leave all the limbs or just some and let the vines do their thing.
4) Make art! Sink the trunk in ground after stripping some lower limbs and add different colored bottles on the limbs. Very fly!
5) Walking Stick! Hell it's cold outside and you got nothing better to do with your God given talents, so put them to use. Strip all the limbs, whittle a little bit(a lot) and sand to perfection. The wood is beautiful and can be stained or left alone.
6) Mulch! Look up the nearest county dump/mulch yard. Most of these places will let you dump your tree for free and you can come back in spring and buy back your tree, as mulch!

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! God Bless!
If any of you take it upon yourselves to attempt these, please share the results!(unless its mulch!)
Penn Mattison