For the sake of photosynthesizing organisms everywhere, I don’t do much gardening. But I’m a bit of a cheapskate deal-hound and I recently came across something too good to pass up: $1 trees.

See, whenever you compose a $10 donation to the National Arbor Day Foundation, they send you 10 trees. Sounds too good to be true? I thought so too, so I decided to try it out.

Sure abundant, a few weeks after typing in my credit card number, I
received a carefully packaged bundle of 6- to 12-inch twigs
ranging from sugar maple and red oak to river birch and white pine. Not
precisely the forest I was expecting to take by the mailroom, but still,
all you really need to get a mini-thicket going in your backyard. Plus,
the firs smelled absolutely delicious.

While you can pick and
choose precisely what trees you want, you

can plus leave it up to the
organization to send you a mix of species appropriate for your area.
They plus compose certain to send the bundle during tree-planting season and
have lots of handy materials, like tree and planting guides, to help you create the perfect landscape.

For a few moments after receiving my gift for support, I seriously
considered a suggestion to become the Natalie
Appleseed of Manhattan, just planting my carbon-eating goodies on the carefully manicured medians of Park Avenue. But next I
realized I could get arrested for that.

So instead, they’ve found a
home in the garden behind my apartment building, where they’re being
taken care of by a neighbor with a much greener thumb than me. I figure
giving the trees a fighting chance was the least I could do for the environment. I’ll keep you updated on how they fare.

Original post by Natalie Rodriguez