Cut your own Christmas tree places?

Do you know of any in our area? Nassau, suffolk, NJ? Not too too far because then all the needles will come off on the way home.
We just have such bad luck with live trees, each year we get them home and they're half dead.

we go to a place in connecicut every year and our trees are beautiful...even after the drive.
It's a huge place too, with lots of selection.

last year though, we tried to go during a snowstorm and had to turn around....we went to a place in queens that was great...bellerose, actually. A cute little farm.

If you want directions to either...let me know and i can get them for you.

My dad always took us to Jones Tree Farm in CT. The drive was a little over an hour and the place is just huge, you can pick what type of tree you want. Blue Spruce (my fave), Norwegian, etc.

Our trees were always beautiful and stayed green and kept needles until we took it down. The cuttings we took off the stump to fit it into the stand stayed green until our spring yard clean up in March.

What people don't realize is that those trees in those seasonal lots are usually cut down in October and are without water until you put them up - so of course they are gonna dry out.

thanks all. I'll run it by DH to see where he wants to go.
I know that the precut ones are already old when I buy them, but I used to get them pretty fresh and get them in water quickly and put that extending solution in it, so it would last till after xmas. But the last couple years we've been going too late, and at night so you can't tell how dead the tree is already. last year our tree wouldn't even take in water. And i'm so paranoid when it comes to house fires and stuff, so I want a fresh one this year.

Every year we get a lot of calls for this at work.

This is the list according to last year, we haven't called them yet to check their hours and dates.

Muller's Christmass Tree Farm, 338 Woodland Ave, Manorville (631) 878-1060

Howard Lewin (Baiting Hollow Nurseries), Sound Ave, Calverton (631) 929-4327

Dart's Christmas Tree Farm, Bayview Road, Southold (631) 765-4148 www.dartstreefarm.com

Tilden Lane Farm, 48 Wyckoff St, Greenlawn (631) 261-0082

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Posted by Kriss2c

My dad always took us to Jones Tree Farm in CT. The drive was a little over an hour and the place is just huge, you can pick what type of tree you want. Blue Spruce (my fave), Norwegian, etc.

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That's the tree farm we always go to!!!!

That's great Palebride.

I know they have berries in the spring and summer and pumpkins in the fall, but we only went for the trees.

we're going either the first or second week in december.....looks like it's going to be nice and cold!