My husband and I just moved into a new home which has two lemon trees.
One is doing quite well and produces more fruit than we can use. The
other is doing less well, and it's also right in the spot that my
husband wants to rototill and turn into a vege garden.

His reasons are good, and I also want a garden, but I just hate to cut
down and kill a fruit tree. I think that it's probably just neglected
and that's why it's not doing well. But it is large and well
established so wouldn't be easy to just move - assuming we had another
place to put it, which we don't.

Is there something we can do to at least put some part of the tree to
good use if we remove it? Can you donate root stock and have it be
used for a new tree? What about grafting? Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated by both of us. Also, I'm not sure what kind of
lemon variety it is.

Tara (in N. California)

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Tara Inman wrote:

My husband and I just moved into a new home which has two lemon trees.
One is doing quite well and produces more fruit than we can use. The
other is doing less well, and it's also right in the spot that my
husband wants to rototill and turn into a vege garden.

His reasons are good, and I also want a garden, but I just hate to cut
down and kill a fruit tree. I think that it's probably just neglected
and that's why it's not doing well. But it is large and well
established so wouldn't be easy to just move - assuming we had another
place to put it, which we don't.

Is there something we can do to at least put some part of the tree to
good use if we remove it? Can you donate root stock and have it be
used for a new tree? What about grafting? Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated by both of us. Also, I'm not sure what kind of
lemon variety it is.

Tara (in N. California)

(Tara Inman) wrote:

My husband and I just moved into a new home which has two lemon trees.
One is doing quite well and produces more fruit than we can use. The
other is doing less well, and it's also right in the spot that my
husband wants to rototill and turn into a vege garden.

His reasons are good, and I also want a garden, but I just hate to cut
down and kill a fruit tree. I think that it's probably just neglected
and that's why it's not doing well. But it is large and well
established so wouldn't be easy to just move - assuming we had another
place to put it, which we don't.

They are expensive to transplant, and make excellent firewood.
This is not an endangered species, it's a ratty lemon tree!

Is there something we can do to at least put some part of the tree to
good use if we remove it?

Can you donate root stock and have it be used for a new tree?
No

What about grafting?
Unless it is a superb and NEW variety, it'snot worth the
grafting wax.

Tsu

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