Just planted about 250 seeds for fall crops. Did a little bit more than usual this year cause I plan on gifting some carrot and lettuce plants to a few people who I think will enjoy starting a little gardening themselves. A few people have commented to me how they want to start their own garden so I've taken it upon myself to get them started.
So far the weather has gotten considerable colder this last week, not sure exactly what's going on but anything is better than 90-100f+. It would be nice to have an actual fall season for once here instead of crazy ass fires like we've been having the last few years
I'm helping commentate a speedrun tournament. It's been awesome and I have a lot more of it to go.
My lemon tree just had its first bloom. Eventually, I'll have a lemon!
Also today I have a lot of really comfy reading to do, which I'm looking forward to as soon as I have a bit of time. New post on acoup, new chapter of This Used To Be About Dungeons, and a board game manual.
Awesome, the speed running community is pretty cool. I don't do any but there is a couple youtubers I sub to that do awesome videos about it like summoning salt
Also grats on the lemons, mine is also fruiting quite a bit. I repotted two of them because the soil seemed to be lacking nutrients and I'm glad I did, it's doing so much better now.
How old are your lemons? Mine's about a year old, not sure how much fruit I should be expecting from it yet.
Mine are close to 10 years now. Honestly you're lucky if you get fruit if it's only a year old, usually takes a couple. Also be prepared to get inedible lemons this year and maybe next. Immature citrus trees can produce fruit without any juice inside sometimes early on. It naturally fixes itself though if kept well fed and watered. Definitely recommend using citrus food a couple times a year. It helps a lot.
I put some sort of stake-shaped fertilizer thing in next to it, which is supposed to last all year, but it might be a good idea to give it something else before it has to come in for the winter.
Any chance you also have advice on oranges? I also have a one year old orange tree, which is absolutely tiny and barely growing any new leaves, but has three golf ball sized green oranges growing on it already.
Honestly Citrus trees grow really easily where I'm at. Never had to work too hard with them. Basically just feeding them every 2-3 months in the off season and for 3 months when they're about to be ripe feed them extra once a month. If you want though, it doesn't hurt to check your pH levels for the soil, it can be pretty important. So far I've only checked it twice and it's been fine buy our tap water here is great so we're lucky https://gardenerd.com/blog/whats-growin-on-blog/how-to-do-a-home-soil-test-for-citrus/#:~:text=It's%20pretty%20simple%3A%20spoon%20a,we're%20good%20on%20pH!
I live in a "you can grow citrus!?" climate. Checking pH sounds like a great idea for finnicky plants, I'll take a look at that. Thanks!
Good luck, and if you live in a colder climate then I'd definitely recommend investing in some of those thermal blanket wraps for it during the winter. They aren't super expensive and worth it if it gets too cold