What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Today we are talking about Christmas trees,

but actually what we're going to be talking about is the gardening application of your Christmas tree once Christmas is over. So if you do have a live tree or a dead tree

that actually is alive and not fake, then here's what you can do with it. I'm going to go through

just a couple suggestions that I have based on some of the

stuff we've learned this year on the podcast. So first, you could create a brush pile for birds and

wildlife. We all know that birds do like a little bit of cover in order to nest and also

just as protection from predators. In fact, my most recent video on YouTube, if you're listening

to this podcast on Dave release, is all about attracting birds to the garden so definitely check that out.

So you could just you know chop off a couple branches and bunch them up in a

certain area of your garden as a way to provide some cover for birds.

Next suggestion, you can keep your perennials warm.

You can cut the bows off your Christmas tree, lay them around the roots of perennial plants, and that mulching will help protect them at least a little bit from cold temperatures and also reduce the chance of frost damaging your

my next suggestion has to do with chipping your tree so what you can do is I mean you

could saw it and split it up but you can also rent or just if you have a chipper throw it through the chipper and now you have wood chip mulch for your your garden and there's a lot of different ways that you can use that I mean if you're a back to eat in a proponent and using wood chip mulch is sort of the mainstay of your gardening

technique well then a Christmas tree is just even more mulch for you which is a fantastic

fantastic little boon after you get your Christmas tree out of the house and into the

garden. You can use it as lining for your beds. You can use it as, I mean it's mulch guys, you can use it in a bunch of different ways you could even compost that mulch

and include maybe some of the twigs and stems and chop those up finely as a nice base for your hot compost pile.

Another thing you could do is you could take the trunk itself,

slice it into about one or two inch long logs,

like mini logs, and then you could use those as edging for a

garden path so there's a million and one different ways that you can use a

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