Post #668432 by johnrussellcox on Fri, Feb 22, 2013 6:34 PM

yup - I'm new at this and am just doing my homework for my first tiki. I apologize in advance if tis has been covered, but I searched these (massive) archives and cannot find what I'm looking for. I live in Florida (USA) and picked up a couple of palm tree trunks a while back, planning on carving them into tikis. I hope to begin work very soon and I want to "plant" them in the ground - so, do I need to treat the bottom part of the palm (that's going into the ground) with anything in particular to help preserve it? Thanks in advance! John