An Experiment in Scotch

That is the result of a long 11 months of nur­tur­ing one sat­suma orange tree. It bloomed in late Jan­u­ary after drop­ping all its leaves, caus­ing me to think it dead. In March, lit­tle green oranges showed up. We lost a cou­ple over the sum­mer but in the end, we got 18 oranges that have a great taste.

Sat­sumas are actu­ally easy to grow in North Texas as long as you can bring them in when it gets to 25 degrees or colder. I’ll prob­a­bly replant this one in a 20 gal­lon con­tainer this week and then hope that we get another good crop next year.

I’d like to try my hand at other cit­rus but need a green­house to really have much luck in DFW.