Showing posts with label citrus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label citrus. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

May '13 Lime Harvest


 
 
This is the bowl I used last year. It holds enough finger limes for a cheesecake. You couldn't even tell that some were missing from the tree.
 
 
 
 
 
Total 2013 Finger Lime Harvest: 5.5kg of fruit. YUM!
 
In contrast, the other tree produced zero fruit. Drought periods saw it suffering from brown scale, which I treated with Pestoil and a prune of the most seriously encrusted branches. We'll see in spring whether it recovers or dies, I guess. There was also scale on the mandarin and the Tahitian limes but they seem to have fruited regardless, which just goes to show that pests are a symptom of unhealthiness (no water, clay soil, sloping position, etc) rather than the cause.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Yummy Seedy Mandarins

So, how can mandarins be yummy and seedy at the same time?
Easy. I don't water them. So they are small. And full of seeds. But very sweet. I can see why they are called honey murcott. YUM.
A week after picking them all (total harvest: about 2kg), the tree was already flowering and pollinated and rearing to go again.

Onya, little neglected mandarin tree!