This spring our lemon tree flowered and then set fruit. A month or so later all but about 5 lemons dropped off. That's what it did the year before when we first got it. But mid summer it flowered again and set several more lemons. They survived the falling off time and are now ripening along with the original fruit.
In the bottom photo are visible the more mature lemons on the lower left. The smaller late fruit is to be seen all over the tree. I wonder if the late fruit will reach maturity? And to think that I pooh-poohed Becky's desire for a lemon tree and that it would produce anything in the middle of Arkansas. Last year we harvested a dozen lemons. A neighbor told me the grass I have cultivated in the pot would starve the tree, and that I should pull it out. Well, the grass grows around the lemon trees in Florida, does it not?
This spring our lemon tree flowered and then set fruit. A month or so later all but about 5 lemons dropped off. That's what it did the year before when we first got it. But mid summer it flowered again and set several more lemons. They survived the falling off time and are now ripening along with the original fruit.
In the bottom photo are visible the more mature lemons on the lower left. The smaller late fruit is to be seen all over the tree. I wonder if the late fruit will reach maturity? And to think that I pooh-poohed Becky's desire for a lemon tree and that it would produce anything in the middle of Arkansas. Last year we harvested a dozen lemons. A neighbor told me the grass I have cultivated in the pot would starve the tree, and that I should pull it out. Well, the grass grows around the lemon trees in Florida, does it not?
