A reader recently reached out and asked why their cherry tree’s leaves are turning red. While I had an idea of what was causing it, I did more research to give them the best answer I could. Here’s what I…
Using Epsom salts in the garden is a popular gardening trend and I wanted to see if they’re good for fruit trees. The only problem is there’s not a lot of good information out there. So, I did more research…
We have several citrus trees including two lemon trees, two lime trees, one tangerine, and one orange tree, and we occasionally see split fruit. While not too many fruits are affected, we wanted to see if there’s anything we can…
We had a dwarf lemon tree that wasn’t doing so well, and we were afraid it was starting to die. Not sure what the issue was, we did more research and testing to find out more. Here are the most…
One of our two lemon trees isn’t growing and we were wondering if there’s anything we can do to speed it up. While I had an idea, I wanted to do some more research. Here’s what I found. So, while…
We have two lemon trees and we want to provide them with more companion plants around the garden. While we know some of the companions, we wanted to gather a complete list so we can provide our lemon trees with…
It’s time to give our lemon tree some fertilizer, and we were wondering if we could use the leftover coffee grounds from our morning coffee maker. So, I did some more research. Here’s what I found. Coffee grounds are great…
We have several fruit trees (tangerine, avocado, lime, fig, and more) and we occasionally see them get brown leaves. While we had an idea of what was causing it, we wanted to do more research. Here’s what we found. Fruit…
I’m doing a permaculture plan for a property in Austin, Texas, and I was wondering which fruit trees are the best to grow here. While there’s a lot of information online, a lot of it is guesswork and incorrect. So,…
We have a banana plant that’s taking a while to fruit. Granted, we recently replanted it, so there could be some transplant shock. However, I wanted to find out more, so I did some research. Here’s what I found. Expect…