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Growing Christmas Trees |
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Decorating the Christmas trees during the Christmas season is a centuries old tradition. There are several ways that can measure the success of growing Christmas trees depending on the grower’s objectives. Lots of considerable enjoyment and satisfaction are got from growing Christmas trees. Many Christmas tree growers’ feel that growing Christmas trees is an outlet from urban life. Many Christmas tree growers feel growing Christmas trees to be a means of livelihood, while some feel that growing Christmas trees provide retirement, employment and income.
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- In order to be a successful Christmas tree grower one must keep abreast of changing cultural and marketing practices. Information about new herbicides would prove advantageous for the Christmas tree growers.
- Growing Christmas trees provides a habitat for wildlife. Christmas trees remove dust and pollen from the air.
- The survival of the Christmas trees can be excellent by using either hand or machine planting methods. Using both methods it is essential that the planting hole or slit is deep enough so that they allow the roots to be spread naturally and they don’t become jammed or twisted.
- The soil must be firmly packed around the seedling or transplant. This is essential to prevent dying and to ensure that adequate moisture relations be established and maintained.
- High quality planting stock must be used for growing Christmas trees, as it will be competitive in the market place. The planting stock comes in various sizes and ages. The planting stock is classified as seedlings or transplants.
- Growing Christmas trees is not enough, great care must be taken to control the competing vegetation growing near each tree. If not controlled it will result in poor survival as well as reduced growth rates.
- By the use of chemicals, mowing, or cultivation weed control is obtained. Herbicides may be used singly or in combination with one or more products depending on the type of weed-grass problem.
- Shearing is essential to develop quality of the growing Christmas trees, which will be sellable in the market. The shearing of Christmas trees is done when the Christmas trees are between two and three feet in height.
- Shearing is essential to produce Christmas trees with full foliage and uniform symmetry. The time of shearing Christmas trees is important.
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