How to Use Your Christmas Tree in the Garden

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Provide a home for the birds.

   Place your tree, stand and all, out in the yard.
   
   Be sure to remove the decorations! Birds will find the tree and use it as shelter during the winter months.
   
   In spring, once the birds don’t need it anymore, either chip it up or lay it on its side in a part of your yard where it can serve as a brush pile for other backyard wildlife.
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   Step 2: Cut the branches off and: Lay them over perennials in your garden.

   This will provide protection from temperature fluctuations and prevent the plants from heaving out of the soil.
   
   Use them at the base of a fresh compost pile.
   
   Having coarser materials, like tree branches, at the bottom of the pile helps increase air flow to the pile.
   
   Use them to mulch your beds or garden paths.
   
   Cut them up into smaller pieces first. ,
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   Step 3: Use the trunk to make teepees to grow beans on

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   Step 4: rustic fences

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   Step 5: and as supports for shade covers and floating row covers.

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