Holiday Special: Growing a Christmas Tree

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello my friends Kevin here from Epic Gardening we are recuperating resting and
0:16.7	planning for 2024 so today's episode is a rerun of some of our favorites from years past.
0:23.6	Hope you enjoy.
0:24.6	Let's talk today, almost a growing thought experiment.
0:29.0	I don't expect many of us to actually do this,
0:32.2	but could you do this, but could you do this?
0:33.4	And if you could, how would you?
0:35.3	And we're talking, of course, about growing your own Christmas tree.
0:39.0	How could you do this?
0:41.2	Obviously, it's possible you go buy a Christmas tree that other people
0:44.1	grew, but is it possible in your own backyard? So the first thing that you would want to do is
0:49.3	you would want to select the right tree. So you've got your furs, you have your pines, you have your
0:54.8	spruces, your cypresses, your cedars, they all have got a nice look to them.
0:59.6	They all will do well as a Christmas tree or holiday tree and so just pick the one that you want a lot of them have different qualities
1:08.2	That make them either better or or worse suited to your climate for For example, take the Douglas fur.
1:14.2	That is the most common Christmas tree species
1:16.7	in the United States.
1:18.4	It's not the one I have.
1:19.4	I have a noble fur as my Christmas tree in my home right now.
1:23.6	That one does really well in zones 4 to 6.
1:25.6	The noble fur zones 4 to 5.
1:27.7	Then if you want something that actually does
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