Christmas Trees: Growing and Selling Trees, Wreaths, and Greens

This book provides an introduction to the commerical growing and sellng of Christmas trees. It covers all the main points and does so in clear prose with the occasional anecdote. Given the topic, those interested in Christmas trees as a business, full or part-time, form the book's primary readership, but anyone who loves Christmas will enjoy discovering the ins and outs of how natural trees make it our homes.

It would be great if an updated and expanded edition of this book were available, but I believe this is the only version out there. Anyway, a great resource. On a personal level, I have found that it is more difficult to successfully plant hundreds of trees. Most of mine died because I could not get up to the property often enough to water them, and I let weeds overtake them and choke them out. I also killed a bunch with the lawn mower :-(

This is a great book that lets those who want to start a Christmas Tree Farm know the basic information they need in order to start their own farm. The author also adds his suggestions and the way that the author started his own tree farm. You will still need some speific information about your land and what you want to grow there, but the author lets you know how to go about obtaining the information you need to have a successful business. He also encourages you about market conditions and basics about how to market your product.

Although this book seems more designed to educate the novice at growing Christmas trees, I believe everyone, even people currently in this business, can learn something valuable from it. It is well written and enjoyable to read, plus informative in that it describes all sorts of trees used, planting methods, protection and care of seedlings and transplants, recommendations for planting locations, and a whole host of other information. I attribute this book to getting me interested in this field as a hobby. Recommend it very highly!

This is a hobby for me, and Hill's book has all the answers. He has been a professional grower for many years. He covers all the details: planting, weeding, pruning and selling.Easy to read and reasonably priced.