Elaine De Saxe's Edible Backyard

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Relocate lemon tree - On the other hand, grafting a piece of the old lemon onto a new rootstock could be another way of ensuring its survival. Elaine..6525 days 16hrs
Relocate lemon tree - With some difficulty! Trees need quite a bit of preparation before they can be moved and researching that on the 'net or getting someone with expertise might have a successful outcome. However, at 25 years old a lemon tree is in its dotage and replacing..6535 days 16hrs
Finger limes - So far, mine has not had any citrus pests at all. Same cannot be said for the exotic citrus which are floundering no matter what I do to them. The finger lime has grown and grown; it's on clay loam, very short on water and exposed to the western sun alth..6535 days 16hrs
No subject38 - Gee, it sounds as though you are feeding them to death! Figs are from the Med. used to excellent drainage, hot dry summers and cold wet winters (but they do reasonably well in Briz with the reverse conditions). Less fert rather than more. If you can shift..6535 days 16hrs
Finger lime - If you can provide a sheltered, warm micro-climate, it's worth a whirl. It's a **very** prickly plant, mine is just fruiting now after 5 years from seed and it's nearly 2 metres high by a metre around. Originally from open scrub, not rainforest; guess..6535 days 16hrs