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Choosing and Caring for a Georgia-grown Christmas Tree
Choosing and Caring for your Tree. Choosing a real Christmas tree is a fun outing for the whole family and easy to do. At Lovell Tree Farm, we would like to offer a few simple steps for selecting the perfect tree.
In most households, the holiday season didn't begin until the family went to the local lot or tree farm to pick out their tree. Then, the whole family would decorate the tree. Gifts would be wrapped and placed underneath it. And, on Christmas morning, the family would once again join around the tree waiting for the festivities to begin. The scent, aroma, and the Real tree itself were an integral part of the family unity as well as the holiday season itself. This tradition continues to this day as more than 37 million families celebrate with a Real Christmas tree.
The celebrating of Christmas with a Real tree has been a tradition for over 400 years. At one time, all Christmas trees were cut from natural stands (or straight out of the forest). As you can imagine, these wild trees looked nothing like today's professionally grown and sheared trees. Today, 98% of trees are grown on plantations. These plantations may sell them to local lots, or act as choose and cut farms where people go to select and cut down their own fresh tree.
To make your tradition a more memorable and pleasant one, we'd like to offer a few helpful hints when selecting a tree:
Do a freshness test.(This will not be needed if you are cutting the tree yourself as you know it is fresh.) Gently grasp a branch between your thumb and forefinger and pull it toward you. Very few needles should come off in your hand if the tree is fresh. Shake or bounce the tree on its stump. You should not see an excessive amount of green needles fall to the ground. Some loss of interior brown needles is normal and will occur over the lifetime of the tree.
Once you've chosen your tree,keep it in a sheltered, unheated area such as a porch or garage to protect it from the wind and sun until you are ready to set it up and decorate it.
Before you set up your tree,make a fresh, straight cut across the base of the trunk (about a quarter inch up from the original cut) and place the tree in a tree stand that holds a gallon or water or more.
Warning:Keep the tree stand filled with water. A seal of dried sap will form over the cut stump in four to six hours if the water drops below the base of the tree, preventing the tree from absorbing water later when the tree stand is refilled. If a seal does form, another fresh cut will need to be made.
Water the tree: A tree will absorb as much as a gallon of water or more in the first 24 hours and one or more quarts a day thereafter. Water is important because it prevents the needles from drying and dropping off and the boughs from drooping. Water also keeps the tree fragrant. Water prevents the tree from drying out and loosing color.
Other Do's and Don'ts: In addition, keep your tree away from heat and draft sources like fireplaces, radiators and television sets. Test your light cords and connections before hanging them on the tree to make sure they're in good working order. You don't want to use cords with cracked insulation or broken or empty sockets. Also be sure to unplug the lights before you go to bed or leave the house. Never overload electrical circuits.
Sensible precautions such as these will help preserve the unique beauty and tradition that only a Real Christmas tree can provide.
Please come check out our high-quality crop of Leyland Cypress and Murrary Cypress Christmas Trees available at Lovell Tree Farm this upcoming Holiday season!
About the Author
Scott M. Martin
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