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Old 12-06-2013, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by IADCathy View Post
Before moving to The Villages we always bought our live tree from Home Depot and were very satisfied with freshness. I see that Home Depot in the area is already selling trees and wondering if others prefer this to Hart-T? I wonder if I should wait for another shipment (if there is one) to ensure that the tree doesn't drop all its needles by Christmas day?! What do you think?

Thanks, Cathy
When we used to have real trees (we have artificial now) we always poured a can/bottle of either 7-up or Sprite into the reservoir for water for the tree and allow the tree to take all of that before adding water to the reservoir..

This ensured that the needles would stay on the tree longer.
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