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Sara Hesikova

The best way to recycle your real Christmas tree at home – your garden will thank you for it

A lit-up real Christmas tree outside a house.

Even with the cold weather raging outside, there are still some gardening jobs you can (and should) get done in January. And mulching should be at the top of your list according to gardening guru Monty Don and other garden experts. And it turns out that you can get your mulch and recycle your Christmas tree for free in one go. 

This is the perfect time to take your Christmas tree down, and time to think about what you’re going to do with it afterwards. If you’ve got yourself the best artificial Christmas tree, then it’s most probably going into storage. But a real Christmas tree needs to be disposed of. Or does it?

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