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This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com. Hohoho. Merry Christmas. Hey, Christmas is
coming up soon, and if you guys are growing your own food, I want to encourage you guys
to grow some live Christmas trees, especially edible ones, actually. What many people don't
know is that pine trees are actually edible. You can eat the pine leaves. So, it would
behoove you, and it'd be my recommendation, you guys, that you guys get a live tree. So,
you guys could get live trees and keep it alive inside your house, use it as your Christmas
tree, then plant it outdoors. Now, even better than just getting a standard live tree that
you can eat the pine needles, which I would call a total famine food, although in Asia
sometimes they just juice them for fun, you want to get a valuable live tree. So, that's
2 kinds like here. First kind is right here. Check it out. It's actually called the Italian
stone pine. So, this is the pine tree that actually makes those little pangolin nuts
or pine nuts. Yes. So, if you live in the right climate, you can grow a pine tree. It's
native to the Mediterranean environment and you can buy these guys living. Now, if you
can't get the Italian stone pine, everybody can get one of these. Check it out. This is
the rosemary Christmas tree. So, this is a bigger one, you know. It's $42 and it's shaped,
you know, just like a little Christmas tree, and it's rosemary. So, you know, I would probably
grow this out before I just started eating it but rosemary's edible, or better yet grow
some rosemary and trim it all year ad then bring it inside for Christmas and then once
you're done with the rosemary tree or herb for Christmas, plant it outside and then actually
you could start, you know, harvesting off of it to feed you and your family some herbs.
Hope you guys enjoyed this quick episode basically sharing with you guys my take on Christmas
tree. You want to get live ones. I mean, minimally get a rosemary little hedge bush, use that
as a Christmas tree or a real pine and plant it out after you're done. I think it's really
a waste of resources to just be clear cutting all kinds of pine trees and other trees every
year during Christmas and then basically people use them and then most of them actually don't
even get composted afterwards. If you do choose to buy a cut tree, I highly encourage you
guys to chip it up and compost it on site because, you know, most of them do not get
composted in the end. I want to encourage you guys always to, you know, reuse instead
of recycle and a live tree makes a lot of sense, especially one that's a living tree
that's also edible like the Italian stone pine or minimally the rosemary, which everybody
could grow, and rosemary's a plant that, you know, is pretty much going to do well. Just
don't overwater it and you'll be having a rosemary hedge outside for life. Hope you
guys enjoyed this quick episode. Once again, my name is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
We'll see you next time, and remember; keep on growing.