California Gardening: Lemon time!, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
One of my Improved Meyers is now just over 15 yrs old. The other two are 'babies' at 10 yrs. When I started growing citrus, I found it ironic that grocery stores jack up the price of lemons in the winter, when this is the heaviest harvest time. They only bear sporadically the rest of the year.

I juice and freeze what I can, and give the rest to family and friends. I picked a bucketful last week and today, two of the Meyers had some more ready to gather up.

We're getting an early and good start to our rainy season, and if so, it'll be an extended harvest for the Meyers. We've had three drought years out of the last four, making the harvest decent-sized but shorter than in a good rain year. When the rains come in regularly over the six-months of our wet season (October-April), the Meyers keep coming for much longer. In a good year I'll get 75+ lbs. off a single Meyer, but in bad years that can drop to 35 lbs. or so.