urban vegetable patch

Lemon Meyer Tree after 3 months

Not sure if I have mentioned about about my dear lemon meyer tree before, but it has been doing so well that I think its worth a mention. Well, about two years ago when we first moved into our current house, we decided to replace a dead tree on our front lawn with a lemon tree. Sounds like a fantastic idea at first but I failed to investigate why the first tree died in the first place. One thing lead to another, after 2 years, the poor lemon tree is on the verge of dying. It has shed most of its leaves and was looking really distressed.

I was determine not to let the poor fellow go without a fighting chance. I went to our local Bunnings to buy half a wine barrel and filled it up with 50% potting mix, 50% manure/compost and 2 handfuls of water crystals. I am now please to announce, after 3 months of transplant, new shoots, leaves and even flowers are growing & blooming as it should be! There are even tiny lemons growing! I remember reading somewhere that you don’t get much lemon (or sometimes small, low quality lemons) from a lemon tree for the first 3 years as this is the time they matures and develop their root systems. Any how, I am contented that it’s well and alive – anything more is a bonus!

Look at those flower buds!