Tag: citrus

• Hanging it out to dry.

  Some extra citrus drying on a 34 degree day. I will try to dry as much stuff as I can over summer, using solar and wind power iinstead of the food dehydrator. I’ll keep that for winter when it can do double duty and heat the house a little. I got the drying rack from…

  ligayagardener

  October 15, 2015

  Gardening

  citrus, drying citrus, food dehydration, food drying, food preservation, Solar, suburban resilience, Sustainability, wind

• It’s ours!

  Our own house! We finally have a mortgage on it. To celebtate, we’ve been planting. There are now 5 citrus trees along the front, this will give us a privacy hedge that will help feed us. There are lemon, orange, mandarin, blood orange and kafir lime. Behind them are apple, dwarf almond, dwarf nectarine and…

  ligayagardener

  October 1, 2015

  Gardening

  citrus, deciduous trees, growfoodnotlawn, growyourfood, growyourown, mortgage, Sustainability

• Citrus issues

  My potted citrus are suffering this winter. Leaves yellowing and dropping. Something’s chewing the leaves of the lemon. Here’s a note, added some months later… Earwigs have been the bane of my young citrus trees. It is they that have been chewing the leaves. The best way to stop them has been to cover a…

  ligayagardener

  July 9, 2015

  Gardening

  citrus, pest control, plant diseases, Sustainability, yellow leaves