Oh, Christmas Tree! December 26, 2012
Posted by nrhatch in Home & Garden, Life Balance, Nature.trackback
If you bought a “real tree” to decorate for the holidays, don’t just toss it into the trash once you remove the ornaments . . . repurpose it!
Many communities offer programs to collect and recycle trees FREE of charge. Some towns chip the trees into mulch for parks and paths.
Others may submerge the trees into ponds and lakes to provide protection and nutrients for fish.
Check with your local government to see if it offers this eco-friendly service.
Aah . . . that’s better!
No real tree here. Just my Mom’s ceramic tree twinkling even now as I type. Hope you had a Holly Jolly Christmas and a boat ride! We had a quiet wonderful Christmas. And we had some wonderful homemade noodles and chicken and stuffing and mashed potatoes and special green beans and jellied cranberry and CH made homemade rolls and we had a cherry pie! And a bit of CHOCOLATE thru the day.. 🙂
Ho! Ho! Ho! That sounds holly jolly, indeed. Had scones for breakfast, a nice dinner mid-day, lots of FUN presents to open.
Instead of going for a boat ride (since the weather was a bit overcast), we opted to play a new-to-us game, Qwirkle ~ I played great when we weren’t keeping score and terrible when we were. Of course.
We use it to stake up our tomato plants in the summer! Just cut off the branches and use the trunk. It’s nice and straight and tall for the vines to be tied to.
Thanks, Irene. I’m having a hard time picturing how you stabilize the trunk before tying the vines to it? ❓
Growing up, we bought live Christmas trees and planted them after the holidays . . . some of those trees are mighty tall now. Glad I stopped growing in the 8th grade or I’d be a giant.
So important to remind people about recycling at this time of excess. ….I’m having trouble writing this… I hope its WP and doesnt mean someone’s taken hold of my computer
Sometimes the “comment box” here and elsewhere seems a bit stand-offish. Usually reloading the page sets it right.
Recycling is a great way to offset some of the excess.
I cleared my recent history, quit everything on the computer and restarted, and it’s OK now. Whew!
Yay! Computers are wonderful . . . when they behave.
I didn’t know we could recycle Christmas trees. Good to know! This year we didn’t get a tree but put Christmas lights all over the house and have a laser cosmos projector in the living room. The planets circling in our ceiling is very pretty too look at and looks real. 😀
Your laser cosmos projector sounds FAB, Marie. What a cool idea to illuminate the holidays. 😀
Reuse and recycle. Go green. Our city has a machine to grind the trees and use the chips for mulch. Good reminder.
Excellent! Great way to put the trees to good use for the community.
We have two real ones, and we always put them out for repurposing.
That’s great! Hope you’re enjoying Boxing Day in Canada.
Our city does collect them and I presume they are chipped and “recycled” that way. But I am fascinated to hear that some cities submerge them into ponds for the benefit of the fish! I’ve never heard of that, nor considered it. I like that! 🙂
It’s like a “coral reef” nursery . . . perfect for giving baby fishies a place to hide from predators.
Phil burns his in the chimenea. He has always loved to burn things. It usually powers a pot of tea….
Does that count?
Of course . . . Phil needs to burn something to power up that pot of tea. From TREE to piping TEA. 💡
Our city has a recycling program (as long as the tree isn’t draped in tinsel), I didn’t catch the details, though, because ours is going back in the box this weekend 🙂 I love the smell of a pine tree, but like flowers, I actually get depressed when they die. I know, I’m strange!
I tend to agree ~ watching blooms wilther and wilt detracts from the bouquet. When BFF buys flowers, he gets me daisies. They’re my favorite because they last 3-4 weeks before drooping, dropping petals, or fading away.
About the same amount of time that our small artificial tree is out and about for the holidays.