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Happy Citrus
Apr. 25th, 2023 10:50 amHey, maybe doing the "Produce of My Estates Calendar" entries will get me on a posting roll.
Did a walk-around this morning for my stretch break. Noticed blossoms on a couple more of the citrus trees. The Trovita orange is doing its thing (after giving me a single orange the first year). It's still relatively young--planted just 2 years ago--so that's impressive. And the "mystery citrus" has some blossoms, so maybe I can remove the mystery label in the spreadsheet. My current map lists it as "Eureka lemon, but the Eureka is clearly the next tree over, so IDK?" and the tree that's clearly the Eureka lemon is tagged in the map as "previous note said orange, but it's clearly a lemon." So just maybe this is another orange tree (not another Seville, thank goodness), but if so, it's one that I never jotted down the details for.
The theory is that every plant that goes into the ground also goes into the spreadsheet and, in most cases, gets a photo of the tag that comes with it. But life gets busy, and tags sit around waiting to be entered until I give up and throw them out. In theory, I use a location grid to ID specific plants in the spreadsheet. I put a lot of work into charting out the fixed structures and measuring key grid locations relative to them. But I slack off for a lot of things. (I long since gave up on documenting the annual vegetables.)
Hence, the "mystery citrus" whose identity just may be revealed this year.
ETA: Not worth a separate post, but wanted to get the observation recorded. Looked out the office window to see that the pomegranate is just starting to bloom. In the past, I've gotten 2-3 fruits per year, but when it gets more mature I hope for a more extensive crop.
Did a walk-around this morning for my stretch break. Noticed blossoms on a couple more of the citrus trees. The Trovita orange is doing its thing (after giving me a single orange the first year). It's still relatively young--planted just 2 years ago--so that's impressive. And the "mystery citrus" has some blossoms, so maybe I can remove the mystery label in the spreadsheet. My current map lists it as "Eureka lemon, but the Eureka is clearly the next tree over, so IDK?" and the tree that's clearly the Eureka lemon is tagged in the map as "previous note said orange, but it's clearly a lemon." So just maybe this is another orange tree (not another Seville, thank goodness), but if so, it's one that I never jotted down the details for.
The theory is that every plant that goes into the ground also goes into the spreadsheet and, in most cases, gets a photo of the tag that comes with it. But life gets busy, and tags sit around waiting to be entered until I give up and throw them out. In theory, I use a location grid to ID specific plants in the spreadsheet. I put a lot of work into charting out the fixed structures and measuring key grid locations relative to them. But I slack off for a lot of things. (I long since gave up on documenting the annual vegetables.)
Hence, the "mystery citrus" whose identity just may be revealed this year.
ETA: Not worth a separate post, but wanted to get the observation recorded. Looked out the office window to see that the pomegranate is just starting to bloom. In the past, I've gotten 2-3 fruits per year, but when it gets more mature I hope for a more extensive crop.
