How to Feed Christmas Trees

Proper care of your tree will ensure that it looks lively and healthy on Christmas morning.

Christmas trees typically are the focal part of our home decorations--and they give Santa a place to leave gifts. Proper care of your tree, and knowing how to feed your Christmas tree, will ensure that it looks as lively and healthy on Christmas morning as it did the day you brought it home from the tree farm.

Things You'll Need

• Deep tree base to hold sufficient water
• Clean source of water
• Sugar or Karo syrup
• Epsom salts

Instructions

1. Cut 5 cm off the bottom of the base of the Christmas tree before placing it into the tree stand.

2. Add sugar or 1 oz. of clear Karo syrup to the water you give your tree.

3. Sprinkle a few pinches of Epsom salts into the water for greener needles.

4. Water your tree regularly with clean, fresh water; your tree may not readily absorb dirty or contaminated water.

Tips & Warnings

• Choose a tree base that's deep enough to hold enough water to keep your tree hydrated. Your Christmas tree stand should hold at least 1 qt. of water for every inch of the diameter of the tree stem.

• The water level in your stand should never drop below the bottom of the tree.