Our family has been raising evergreens on our Wayne county farms since 1932. Christmas Trees for cut-your-own and ready cuts. Wholesale cut Christmas Trees. Balled and burlapped trees available year round for landscaping. Tree House gift shop April through December.
Varieties available at our farms this year for cut-your-own, are Scotch Pine, Blue Spruce, Canaan Fir, Fraser Fir, Concolor Fir, and Douglas Fir. We provide handsaws for your convenience. No chainsaws, axes or hatches are allowed. We ask you to watch out for fences, groundhog holes, drainage ditches, tree stumps, etc. For tree care, click here
Tree Mulching
When the ground has thawed and is just right–digging out trees for landscaping starts. Don’t forget, evergreens used as Christmas trees are excellent for landscaping around the house. Some additional uses for evergreens are as year round greenery, habitat for birds and animals, help to stabilize soil, provide screening and make an excellent wind break.. Galehouse Tree Farms pre-digs Colorado Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce, White Spruce, Black Hills Spruce, White Pine, Canaan Fir, Fraser Fir, Concolor Fir, and Douglas Fir holding them in mulch beds ready for you to inspect and take home to plant. Planting during the early spring through mid May and again in fall, from September until the ground freezes give the trees the optimum amount of water and excellent temperatures to grow new roots.
About the time the seedlings are finished planted, and just before the new growth comes out on the older trees, mowing the grass in the strips between the trees becomes a priority. Trees grow better if the competition from weeds is reduced. This process takes time–we mow with 30-40″ mowers, up to 200 acres, three times during the summer….some on tractors, some with walk behind mowers. For the new seedlings and for the first three years some herbicide is used to help control the weeds along with mowing. In the past we have grown pumpkins in the fields where future seedlings would have been planted the next year, helping in reducing weeds (pumpkin leaves tend to crowd out the noxious weeds).