Not that sour! They make normal lemons seem like watermellons.


"Travis" wrote in message
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G Burton wrote:
Thanks for your reply.

I don't know where the drip line is. the tree has a radius of
about 10 ft, and the grass is about 2 ft from the trunk.

What harm does the grass do? The grass probably isn't much of a
factor because the tree is in the corner the grass covers less and
less than 25% of the circle beneath it.

I think it is getting plenty of water. The lemons also get
almost the size of small grapefruits sometimes. For some reason,
it has not been developing fruit high in the tree -- only in the
lower half. Is that a sign of insufficient water?

What do you think about what the nurseryman said about a mineral
deficiency?

Do you think I might be on the right track, but just too
impatient? It seems to me that it might take a long time for the
minerals to get down to the roots.

I don't know anything about lemon trees but lots of trees dislike grass
growing over the root zone. The drip line is the edge of the tree and its
branches. The root zone is generally thought of as the area from the
trunk to the drip line.

Lemons are supposed to be sour.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5