It's currently 9ºF here in Austin, Texas, and while our Meyer lemon tree is sheltered indoors, I was wondering if it needed chill hours at any point to help it blossom. After some research, here's...

I recently bought a Meyer lemon tree from a nursery and was wondering if I overpaid for it. So, I did some research to find out how much citrus trees cost on average. Here's what I found. Citrus...

At one point I lived in an apartment that got four hours of sun in the summer and zero hours in the winter (I guess that happens when you're facing north). Unfortunately, this was bad news for my...

Over the spring and summer, we occasionally get an influx of fruit flies around our house. We have several varieties of citrus trees, so it's possible that the trees and ripening fruit attract them,...

Occasionally, our orange tree attracts both squirrels and ground squirrels. Unfortunately, they can be a bit of a nuisance and leave us with little to no fruit. While thinking of natural solutions,...

Here in Austin, Texas, scorpions occasionally slide underneath the smallest cracks under our backdoor. Luckily, they aren't poisonous, and our dog barks and warns us when it happens. But we can't...