Re-Using a Christmas Tree

Yesterday I took down our Christmas tree.  It was a Grand Fir, which we always get, because they smell so wonderful.                          It always makes me a bit sad to dispose of the tree.  Setting it out at the curb, next to the trash, is not a dignified funeral for any tree, let alone a Grand Fir. I usually use some of the tree (a few limbs that I can't manage to cram into our yard debris bin) for mulch.  But this year I am using it all.  I cut off all of the branches and laid them out flat on my shrub beds for mulch. I will use the trunk in a few months as the center for a cucumber trellis.