Yesterday: High: 96, Low: 79, no rain, but the humidity says we need some rain to get rid of this moisture!
I have two fruit trees. Correction. I have one fruit tree, a satsuma mandarin orange, and my daughter has one fruit tree, a Meyer lemon tree. We bought them at a fruit tree sale put on every year by the Fort Bend Master Gardeners this year. They are a little over two years old now, and still shouldn’t be allowed to have fruit ripen. But they really want to! For months after getting them, I was pulling baby lemons and a few baby satsumas off the twiglike trees.
Yesterday, my daughter comes in from playing out back and says, “Mommy, you have a lime on your tree, come see!” I was thinking, aw dang . . . I have to start pulling baby fruit off again? Wrong.
I missed a satsuma. And it has hidden in the back of my twiglike tree for months, growing. As you can see, it is pretty much full size now, so I didn’t really see the point in pulling it off. I may as well let it finish growing and turn orange. There are constantly surprises in the garden, aren’t there? I’m glad this was a pleasant one.
It is great you have your daughter so involved with gardening. Great post.
Comment by naturehills — August 12, 2008 @ 11:32 am
Thank you! I try to get her involved, so far I’m doing pretty good, I think. The lemon tree was actually her idea. When we asked her what she wanted to use her birthday money on, she said she wanted to get a lemon tree so she could make lemonade to sell at a lemonade stand. She is 6 , so we thought she might be discouraged to learn how long she would have to wait before she could have that lemonade stand, but she wasn’t.
Comment by Scout — August 12, 2008 @ 1:17 pm