CITRUS UPDATE
(Saturday) Periodically I have to include citrus information to keep the sitemeter spinning. And today I'm happy to report that almost all the trees except the lime and the navel are in bloom -- thicker than last year. The lime tends to bloom whenever it wants to and the navel is getting ready to show its stuff. The two satsumas didn't have much fruit this winter but that should change this coming season. The lemon is blooming for the first time. The cara cara -- just two years old -- probably has 25 blooms. The mandarin tree is loaded. And the blanco grapefruit is looking pretty good, too. Of course, all of these trees are on dwarf stock so they actually fit in our not overly large yard.

It has been warm enough that I'm already having scale problems and I had to put some oil spray on the trees this afternoon (and it's only April!).