"Pretty ridiculous." Expert issues warning over popular landscaping product with harmful impacts: 'Absolutely never use' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Remove burlap. If the tree was wrapped in burlap, place it in the hole before you cut away as much of the burlap and wire basket as you can reach.

Wind blowing through the burlap can rub on needles and damage them. Burlap wrapped around an evergreen can’t keep it any warmer. This isn’t like putting a coat on the doggie.

Burlap, wire baskets, twine and any other transporting materials should be removed from new balled-and-burlapped trees once they're safely in the ground. Left on, they can impede root growth and ...

Looking like a toaster oven, an evergreen that will stay wrapped in burlap until spring, outside of East Hampton, N.Y., Dec. 18, 2017.