A bit of maintenance will lead to beautiful plants and a bountiful harvest. Prune lemon trees after all the fruit has been harvested, usually in late winter or early spring. Avoid pruning more than 30 ...

A lemon tree planted outdoors is in bloom and also has ripe fruit ready to pick. - Kathrin Ziegler/Getty Images Growing your own lemon tree gives you back nothing but enjoyment. Ok, some trees have ...

Growing lemons in a container is easier than you may believe. “On a scale of one to 10, with 10 being hard to grow, I would say lemons are a six,” says Matthew Fleming, lead horticulturist for ...

A: In order to produce lemons, a lemon flower’s stigma must receive pollen that contains the flower’s sperm. More specifically, the sperm in the pollen grains must be transferred to the stigma, found ...

I have a lemon tree that has fruit on it now and is about 4 years old. It just put out some new growth and a good amount of flowers. Should I remove the flowers when they open? Or just let it go? — ...

Lemon trees are an excellent addition to your garden. They offer sweet citrus fruit, and their blossoms smell wonderful when they bloom. However, there are some garden plants that may negatively ...

Q: I have a 4-year-old lemon tree about 6 feet high with lots of lemons about the size of large marbles. I also have a lot of lemons the size of peas that are dropping to the ground. I never had this ...

Growing a lemon tree in your backyard is near impossible in the Pacific Northwest unless it's grown in a container and brought indoors to spend the winter. But you can grow herbs outdoors year-round ...

These five questions answered are about 4 main subjects: Growing Grumichama, what type of drainage (if any) to use in raised vegetable garden beds, why is my lemon tree shedding fruit, and dragon ...

Q: We have a tall, full and thorny 7-year-old lemon tree. Should it have thorns? Four years ago it had 8-10 lemons on one main lower branch. Every year since, it bears less fruit on that branch and ...

Q. I have a mature Eureka lemon tree that has always been a prolific producer. However, in the last two years it has been producing large round fruit that look more like grapefruit. Do you have any ...