Advice from A Professional Gardeners

Advice from Professional Gardeners

How To Plant a Lemon Tree

You can use the following method to plant a variety of trees such as Apple Trees, many citrus trees, Pomegranate trees as well as Banana trees. When you go to buy a lemon tree, you will be overwhelmed with the varieties of lemon trees available. So let our tree surgeons break it down for you. There are true lemon trees like the Eureka, Which is an ever-bearing no-thorn tree. As well as Lisbon, which has thorns and bears summer through Autumn. The other lemons like Meyer have slightly thinner skin and are sweeter. We have the Ponderosa which is a lemon cross with the citron plant. And we also have the variegated pink, which is basically the pink lemonade plant.

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The Eureka semi-dwarf lemon plant is ever bearing, it’s a true lemon and its very delicious. Now before you plant the lemon tree, you need to make sure you spray it with mineral oil and Spinosad. This needs to be done before planting the lemon tree. So spray it and leave it for a couple of days. When looking for the best location for the lemon plant choose somewhere that gets sun for the most part of the day. Dig a hole which is about twice as wide and twice as deep as the container or your lemon tree size.

Make sure there are no roots interfering when planting the lemon tree. Now when you dig your trench, whatever soil came out of the trench, make sure you keep it in Some other place like a wheelbarrow. The reason is that you have to mix your existing soil with some good quality garden soil or compost or whatever you can get your hands on. The reason is that when you dig that deep and especially for soils that haven’t been enriched there’s not going to be a lot of organic matter left in the soil. Mix the existing soil as well as add some rich organic matter to the soil and for those of you who live in urban areas and cannot get things like horse manure or compost there are options available. You can go to your local garden centre and get a bagged product. Such as a product by Sta Green (StaGreen) which is a tree and shrub garden soil plus fertilizer. These are available in 2 cubic feet bags and they are quite reasonably priced as well.

What you can do is just try to keep your pot in that location and see if you need to add more soil and that your plant is at the surface. Now remove the plant from the container it came in so what you do is just tap around the plant, pull it out and very importantly loosen the soil around the roots. That will really let the roots grow into the base where you are planting the tree. Keep adding additional garden soil so that the plant is planted well in its place. Compact the soil a little bit by stepping on it or pressing it with your hands. This will avoid creating a crater kind of a surface after you’ve finished planting the tree.
Add more soil as needed. This is the existing soil that was taken out of the area and just mix it in as well around the plant. Then add more soil and level the surface as needed. Adding multiple layers and levelling it is really the key to setting up a plain level surface for your plant. Last but not the least, you need to water the plant really well after you’ve planted it. Water deep so that the water reaches the roots which are deep down below the surface. Next add some mulch. You can add a weed barrier to the bottom before adding the mulch. A weed barrier or a landscape fabric cloth will prevent weed growth. Then add some mulch.
You use a fine bark ground cover mulch and after you’ve added the mulch just spread it around your plant. Mulch has a lot of benefits it first of all gives a very nice appearance to the area where you’ve planted your tree. It also helps the soil beneath the surface to retain moisture and it also prevents growth of weeds around your plants. Which is why adding a mulch is so important when planting any kind of tree.
I hope this post helps you plant your own trees. Growing trees is a great thing to do in your garden if you have the space. You are going to be blessed with a lot of fruits all year round. All the advice provided in this post is taken from a team of leading tree care experts and gardeners at Lemon Trees Online located at Archer House, Castle Gate, Nottingham, NG1 7AW7

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