[permaculture] Planting live Xmas tress
Margaret & Steven Eisenhauer
eisenhauerdesign at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 19 14:41:17 EST 2008
Interesting. The fact that nursery's keep their potted shrubs outside
hadn't dawned on me.
Well, will keep that in mind for next year, as the locally cut tree has been
purchased.
Thanks for the info.
MR.E.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:permaculture-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of KSantoyo
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:06 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: [permaculture] Planting live Xmas tress
Not sure your nursery's info was exactly correct (re planting
immediately). After all, there are many nurseries in cold climates
that overwinter their potted trees above ground!
The key, of course, is to protect the root ball from drying out and
freezing- and this can be accomplished by INSULATING the pot with, for
example, a quantity of mulch up and around the container- aim for at
least 10" worth all around...
merry merry-
Kathryn
EarthFlow Design Works
www.earthflow.com
On 12/17/08, Margaret & Steven Eisenhauer
<eisenhauerdesign at earthlink.net> wrote:
ly.
>
> When I spoke to our nursery, they told us that any live tree, in these
> climes, must ONLY be inside for 10 days, then it must be put immediately
> into a pre-dug hole, seeing as we've already had several hard frosts and
10
> inches of snow and then heavily mulched.
>
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