My husband made bee habitats out of trees he cut down .. then our 9 yo went into anaphylaxis from a bee sting! 🐝 So we had to get rid of the bee habitats.😅 He is getting immunotherapy, … but … $300 per week, every week for years. 😭
Listen, I'm no expert, I've only been growing vegetable gardens for probably longer then some of you have been alive. This might sound like a great idea, but I can't emagine the chemicals in the sap of these trees being good for your soil microbiology. Go find any pine, or evergreen tree in your local forest and look underneath, and around it close by. Usually you won't see anything growing close to, or under a pine tree, accept maybe a pine sapling….. there's a reason for this. The ground under these type trees is always barron, with nothing but dead pine needles. Don't take my word for it though.
Don’t use the needles as mulch. When they dry out they become sharp as needles. Will be impossible to get rid of them in your dirt. They don’t decompose.
I did this two years ago with all the trees my neighbors were throwing out. I must have collected over 25 of them. Last year and this year though, it seems the garbage pickup has beat me to it, as I haven't seen as many trees at curbside.
🤔 My tree is now pine cleaner n potash. The only thing i want to try with the trunk is to grow mushrooms. Great recycling ideas though. 🙏Thanks for sharing.
Now that I don't have a real tree anymore I get someone's tossed tree and set it up on my back porch filled with bird seed and fruit. Then use it in the firepit next summer. But I like tha trellis idea.
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Here are the food-bearing plants that are compatible with Christmas tree mulch:
Blueberries, Cranberries, Strawberries, Rhubarb, Potatoes, Raspberries, Blackberries.
Paid $300 for a tree this year. I'm saving this baby for the next few Christmass
My husband made bee habitats out of trees he cut down .. then our 9 yo went into anaphylaxis from a bee sting! 🐝 So we had to get rid of the bee habitats.😅
He is getting immunotherapy, … but …
$300 per week, every week for years. 😭
Who can afford a real tree in this economy
Bro your soil is insanely nice. I kinda thought SD was all clay? I suppose you are closer to the coast than i originally thought!
Listen, I'm no expert, I've only been growing vegetable gardens for probably longer then some of you have been alive. This might sound like a great idea, but I can't emagine the chemicals in the sap of these trees being good for your soil microbiology. Go find any pine, or evergreen tree in your local forest and look underneath, and around it close by. Usually you won't see anything growing close to, or under a pine tree, accept maybe a pine sapling….. there's a reason for this. The ground under these type trees is always barron, with nothing but dead pine needles. Don't take my word for it though.
Nice advice but I don’t think I’ll follow it considering I’m highly allergic to pine. 🌲
My friend makes a ✝️ cross out of the tree trunk 😮
Don’t use the needles as mulch. When they dry out they become sharp as needles. Will be impossible to get rid of them in your dirt. They don’t decompose.
Plant peas… Meanwhile in freezing maine 😅😅😅
Thank you Daddy, love your videos.
Exellent idea
Oh, tell us more about the crows claws😊
Me with a plastic tree being a dumb ass
That the prettiest Christmas tree 🌲 IV ever seen
Love it I find them dumped all the time out on forest roads sometimes with lights still on them 😑
Won’t this make the soil acidic? It is, after all, pine needles that drop to the forest floor in taigas that make their soils acidic.
Hello dear friend happy new year. What happened to your Facebook page I cannot find and none of your posts appeared for more than a month.
Good idea
I did this two years ago with all the trees my neighbors were throwing out. I must have collected over 25 of them. Last year and this year though, it seems the garbage pickup has beat me to it, as I haven't seen as many trees at curbside.
Here in the Philippines we use plastic trees save money 👌
This is cool.
🤔 My tree is now pine cleaner n potash. The only thing i want to try with the trunk is to grow mushrooms. Great recycling ideas though. 🙏Thanks for sharing.
My gardening teacher told me pine needles are quite acidic and not ideal to let them compost in your soil, so i'm conflicted now about the mulch tip
My grandfather just throws them in the furnace
Clever
Never do this if it was sprayed with pestizides/insectizides!
Now that I don't have a real tree anymore I get someone's tossed tree and set it up on my back porch filled with bird seed and fruit. Then use it in the firepit next summer. But I like tha trellis idea.
I'm growing mime again for next year
You people cut millions of trees and cause pollution every December
Now you tell me
If you don‘t clean the holes of the habitat the pollinators wings will be destroyed