Looking after your Christmas tree over summer

[0phelia]

Hello.
At Christmas we got a living tree in a pot, because I hate the throwing away a whole tree.

We're keeping it in it's pot in the garden, but we've never done this before. It's getting hot now, and worried I might kill it.

Are there any tree/garden experts who can help, are you supposed to water it every day? Once a week? Would that BabyBio liquid be any good?

Or would it be better to plant the tree in the ground then dig it up again at Christmas?

Thanks

We just keep it in the pot which it'll be in again next Christmas. Water it well but don't drown it. We keep ours in a partially shaded spot, but if it's too shaded it will grow into a weird spindly shape and look odd!

Ours gets a feed of liquid seaweed a couple of times during the year, but nothing else. Maybe a handful of blood, fish and bone on top of the compost if I think of it.

We had one for four years, then bought another one. It's much nicer than throwing them out each year.

Ours has sat abandoned in the shaded bit of the back yard. Most of the needles fell off, some of them seem to be reemerging now.

Ewww Fractions, what kind of guests?

I have read recently in a James Wong book that I wont' stop going on and on about that you can use the young needles of Douglas Fir trees to make things like pine sugar and - better- PINE GIN!!

I NEED A DOUGLAS FIR TREE!

Knew I should've got a rental tree.