Q: I have a productive 8-year-old Meyer lemon that's been in the ground for about two years. When and how can I transplant this tree to a more suitable location? R.C., Houston Dig a rootball with a ...
Question: I have a lemon tree that was planted in partial shade one year ago. My gardener claims it’s in too much shade. I was thinking I needed to wait for winter to transplant it to a sunny spot. Is ...
A question for Dan Gill: I would like to transplant a young orange tree to a location with more sun. What time of year is best to do so, and how is this best done? I've been told to use a shovel to ...
Question: I have a lemon tree that we planted three years ago. It is not growing well. It is next to an adult California pepper tree. (10 feet away) I would like to dig it out and transfer it. Are ...
Question: I have seven fruit trees, including some citrus, that I planted in half whiskey barrels about three years ago. They all have had fruit the past two years. I want to transplant them into the ...
There's something so refreshing about the beautiful smell of citrus, especially when it's around your own home. Our good friend and gardening guru Ciscoe Morris shows us how easy it is to grow a ...
Patience is a virtue, right? But when you're a gardener waiting for the tree you lovingly picked out and planted to produce fruit, your virtue may be tested. It can take two to four years to get an ...
Q: You wrote about people’s peaches and other stone fruit that didn’t mature due to the early & late heavy rains we had last winter. I have a 40-year-old Valencia orange with the oranges still green ...
LAKELAND | Lush, abundant citrus groves surrounded Florida Southern College when Lamar Louise Curry went there in the 1920s. Curry, now 103 and the college's oldest living alumnus, chose FSC in part ...