HOW TO DISPOSE OF YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE ON LONG ISLAND

I suppose the timing of tree disposal is more or less the same all over give or take a few days. They probably wait until sometime after the new year to give the maximum number of people time to take their trees down. What they do with them afterwards is interesting. Wood chips and mulch I'm familiar with but fish beds and protective dunes is thinking very creatively.

Thanks, Jon. I really enjoyed the cultural lesson. When I first saw on my profile page that you had commented on this post out of all of them, I thought, " What can Jon possibly say about Christmas trees at the end of January?" But I learned something new and for some who thought the first week in January was getting a little late to do pick-ups, now we know it isn't late enough.

On the news, during the Christmas season, they profiled a man in a Brooklyn Russian community who had been selling Christmas trees for 20 years without a permit and had apparently never needed one before because it's for such a short duration during the season. This year, the police came and shut him down and destroyed about $20,000 worth of trees in their garbage trucks and left him without a way to pay his bills. I can't imagine what that was about and who it was that complained. I think during the holiday season, we can all open our hearts a little bit and turn the other cheek.

Ron - Sorry I never saw this comment before. I don't know what a grapevine Christmas tree is but I l'm laughing at your line that it's not something pretending to be something else.