- Author: Kamille Hammerstrom
Fall and winter are the times of year when the average outdoor garden plants take a little breather, but not citrus! If your potted Meyer lemon or Bearss lime trees are like mine, they are flowering and fruiting, even as the rest of my garden rests. Thus the care of potted citrus can be a little bit different than other garden plants.
First of all, fertilize!
Citrus is a heavy feeder, particularly on nitrogen. Fertilizers are generally labeled with numeric ratios such as 3-1-1. Those numbers reflect the ratio of nitrogen (N) to phosphorus (P) to potassium (K), or N-P-K. Because citrus likes a lot of nitrogen, you want to purchase a fertilizer with at least a 2-1-1 ratio, or twice as much nitrogen as phosphorus and...
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- Editor: Kamille Hammerstrom
Here is a short article we published a few years ago from Four Winds Growers that may be of interest to many of us. Cold weather protection for our citrus trees is important so the fruit stays in good edible condition. Even though we're into January now, there's still plenty of time for cold temperatures to damage our citrus trees!
Winter Cold Protection
While mandarins, kumquats, poncirus, and the famous yuzu are somewhat cold hardy, lemons, limes and grapefruit are relatively frost sensitive. Oranges fall somewhere in the middle tolerance range. The Four Winds Growers' Citrus...