“Sugar and magnesium – I don’t know”

Have you also had firs that start to bare already on Christmas Day? Here are the gardener’s best tips for making the Christmas tree last until the twentieth Knut – and take the opportunity to dispel some myths.
– This with sugar and magnesium in the water, I don’t know if it has that much significance, says Victoria Skoglund.

Next week it’s Lucia and many have already started putting up the Christmas tree or are planning to do so. And then it’s a while until Knut’s twentieth day, which this year falls on Saturday January 13. Does a Christmas tree really last that long?

– Yes, but I think so. If you buy a real fresh fir or have cut it yourself, then it lasts quite well, says Victoria Skoglund in Nyhetsmorgon.

The trick: That’s the thing

So one trick is to buy a freshly cut fir tree – or to cut it yourself. But once the tree is inside, there is one thing you have to be generous with.

– They want a lot of water, you shouldn’t let them dry out. But this thing with sugar and magnecyl in the water, I don’t know if it matters that much. The water is the thing itself, says Victoria Skoglund.

If the tree hangs and begins to bare after only a few days, it may not have been fresh, she believes.

This is how you know if the tree is fresh

How can you know if the tree you are going to buy is fresh, then?

– Then I would ask the question: When did you cut this? Strict and with stun in the eyes! And if he cut it yesterday, then I would take it right away.

Jenny: But no one has done that. Where do you think the line is?

– I don’t know where the line is, I can’t answer that. The best is if you can cut one yourself, if you have land or a neighbor has land, says Victoria Skoglund.

– I think it’s nice when they’re not quite perfect, says Jenny Strömstedt.