Christmas Tree Preservative
Do you have a fresh Christmas tree this year?
If you do, you can extend the life of the tree and, perhaps more importantly, reduce the amount of needles that drop off by simply adding a packet of floral preservative or by adding a few drops of bleach or vinegar.
It works for me!
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I have heard this works but I've never tried it. We tried Sprite in the water one year but that didn't seem to do anything but grow out a rather interesting biology experiment... if you know what I mean. Thanks for the new idea!
Thank you for the tip. Will definitely try it out.
Heidi
Good idea. I don't think I'll try it on my artificial trees though. ;-)
tm
Great Idea!
Great tip! Though we sprang for a fake tree this year--so my Christmas tree preservative may be a baby gate a la Jon and Kate plus 8!
I have not heard that one I might try it. I have heard about a few aspirin and that seems to help a little.
Awesome tip. We've been chopping ours down ourselves at the Christmas Tree farm for the past couple of years, but I'm sure the flower preservatives can't hurt!
When we still used real trees we sprayed them with water every day, later we had smaller ones and that was in the time people used hairspray to keep the needles on.
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Have a great day!
I'll have to give it a try. :) thanks!
what a great tip...i've never thought about using the flower preservative packets for a Christmas tree.
my dad has always put some brown sugar in the water for the tree, and they hardly have any needles falling off!