re: #379 Shropshire Slasher

A crazy shopper returned her Christmas tree to Costco this January for a refund — because it was “dead.”

I tried to do the “recycling” thing and buy Xmas trees in a bucket of dirt so we could then plant them out in the back yard. I thought that a row of Xmas trees along the back fence might be a nice touch.

But two issues:

replanting a tree in the spring will generally kill it, they need to be replanted in the fall and they cut back the roots so much to fit in the planting pot that the tree is pretty much a goner already, only alive enough to last into January.