And being the lazies that we are, they stayed in their plastic store pots for over a month. They were doing okay, so we figured we could take our time.
Yet when we came home from Oregon, they were toppled over, all crushed and semi-dead on one side. Time to finally find a home for the poor things.
Since we had a nice open patio due to our ivy removal, some nice wooden barrels would work to both house our plants and fill the void.
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| Past look at the "void". Dead foliage since removed. |
I potted the trees by first scoring their roots (loosens them up) and filling them with manure-filled soil.
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| Creepy spider eating lunch. |
I still want to put the trees on roller-bases though, so I can move them around the patio if needed. But they are much happier in their pots, and definitely won't fall over easily!
Do you have a citrus tree? Or know how to take care of one?
Cute trees! We don't have a yard, so no personal trees for us. But my husband volunteers for Friends of the Urban Forest, an organization that plants trees all over the city. I like to think of those trees as "ours" :)
ReplyDeleteCute pots!! :) So fancy rigging the water system. :oP Oh engineers. :D
ReplyDeleteFun! They need lots of light! And I love how your inner engineers show :)
ReplyDeleteJealous! They're so cute!
ReplyDeleteso great that you have citrus trees! and i like those pots/planters/whatever things you got at home depot!
ReplyDeleteWow, hooking them up to a watering tube system is so smart. Maybe my plants would stop dying if I had something like that, because I can not seem to keep anything alive. Probably because once a week isn't often enough to water them!
ReplyDeleteMy dad has had a lemon tree in his backyard since before I was born (in San Jose), and it's awesome! It's gigantic, though -- about as tall as his 2-story house. It's very handy not to have to worry about buying lemons! And he gets some funny shaped ones once in a while that make us giggle. =) Citrus trees actually grow really well out in the Tucson area where we are now, but of course, require a lot more than 5 minutes of water per day. =)
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