Fall Planting

I love planting in the Fall. The weather is  getting cooler, the bay breeze starts blowing and cleanses the air. Soon the rains will be upon us giving all the plants much-needed relief from the hot dry summer. 

This year I decided to try something new.  After seeing so much information about high-density fruit tree planting, I thought I'd put my own spin on the idea! 

There was a great sale on "entry-level" citrus seedlings. You know, the ones in the tall skinny pots?  Never one to pass up a good sale, I purchased 3 different ones: a Mexican Key Lime, a Calamondin, and a Santa Teresa Feminello Lemon. After their acclimation on my back patio, I potted them all together in a 5-gallon pot and moved them to my pond area, where we have overhead misters that spray every day.  So far, they seem happy and are even putting out some blooms!

I hope to use this blog as a way to catalog my journey with this project and maybe encourage others to give it a try as well!  

Happy Fall planting...

Calamondin citrus tree by Purrrpl_Haze is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

File:Citrus aurantiifolia of Kadavoor.jpg by Jeevan Jose is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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