| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| gil |
Your Xmas treeA timely reminder of a past thread about thisOther Suggestions for what to do with your Xmas tree now it's Twelfth Night Please add new ideas... (see also my pine needle pan scrubber thread) |
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| Nick |
Am I very bad for having a bonfire for mine. The kids are outside now, poking it, getting some fresh air and some acrid smoke in their lungs. | ||||
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| cab |
Trying to keep mine alive. Got one with a good root ball, I've re-potted it with more space, hasn't started losing needles yet. Would be nice to have the same tree next year. | ||||
| Northern_Lad |
I've had the same one for 3 years now. Lives in a pot in my back garden. I think I might have to find somewhere sheltered for it to go back outside and I don't want to shock it too much. | ||||
| Treacodactyl |
Shouldn't they be at school? We didn't bring our tree in this year, we've had it for at least 8 years and it's getting a tad too big to bring in. |
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| gil |
@NL
Why not just keep it indoors for a few more days ? Tyr to see it as a rather large houseplant, rather than a reminder of Yule festivities. |
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| toggle |
we don't dare do that. there's one in the garden a previous resident planted that now has a protection order on it. its an incredibly badly shaped and ugly tree |
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| cab |
Well, its staying in the pot, and it'll be a good while before its big enough to be worthy of a protection order. If it gets too big to come into the house then its too big and its time to chop it. | ||||
| Nick |
Nope, back tomorrow. Schools didn't want them in for the first couple of days. Teachers couldn't cope, or something. 
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| vegplot |
Ours isn't coming down until tomorrow as we're away tonight and then it goes back in the box.
Discarded trees are used around here to stabilise sand dunes |
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| Northern_Lad |
There's a good chance that might happen. Although where I could leave it in my back room and still have room to move I'm not sure... |
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| happytechie |
ours is in it's box ready to be put in the loft for next year, well done Fee :kiss: | ||||
| Rob R |
If it's anything like last year it'll stay in the pot out in the yard, somewhere in the nettles, getting blown around with every gale & then next year we'll say "What happened to the tree? It looked half dead last time I saw it. Shall we get a new one? Nah, drag it out & we'll get it in." It's tradition. | ||||
| Shan |
Ours is going to become another perch once we have stripped the branches off. | ||||
| Woodstock |
Mine is sitting out in the garden in its big pot and i am hoping that the shock of going from a lovely warm indoors for the last few weeks to the frozen tundra that it has felt like recently outside won't kill it! | ||||
| colour it green |
we light the woodburner with the branches (i just stuck the last ones in tonight..) and the trunk gets logged and burnt in the woodburner next year
the living in a pot one is back outside |
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| lettucewoman |
that's what we will do with ours.. 
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