Tag Archives: citrus fruit
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This’ll be tasty!
5Tuesday 06 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The citrus fruit yield looks to be well below average this year. Most of that is down to the weather …
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Lemon tree is still alive, just…
9Tuesday 11 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Remember this lemon tree that was almost wiped out during our much colder than normal winter? Well, this is what happened a few …
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Citrus Tree Care – Lime paint (2 of 2)
8Sunday 21 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Painting the trees with slaked lime and copper sulphate takes time. I have to paint the trunk, from the dirt level, …
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Citrus Tree Care – Lime paint (1 of 2)
12Saturday 20 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Continuing on with the repair and care programme for our citrus trees… this year it’s time to ‘paint’ the trees! …
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Young fruit
8Saturday 16 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As we move into summer, the farm is starting to quieten down after the departure of a million or so …
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Lemon recovery – the senior trees
8Thursday 14 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After the recovery success of the ‘little’ lemon tree, we’ve had to wait to see how the larger trees ended …
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Lemon recovery – result
15Sunday 26 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In the ongoing saga of the lemon trees versus the unexpected and rare cold snap this past winter, we have seen mixed results. …
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New life: Lemon trees
15Tuesday 07 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Time is marching on, and as we move well into spring in southwest Türkiye, the orchard is starting to show …
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Lemon recovery
14Wednesday 11 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Although two of the lemon trees look pretty much ‘gone’, and the largest is still in panic shut-down mode, we …
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My ‘little’ sprayer…
9Sunday 08 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Remember this year I hired the tractor and pump for the main orchard copper sulphate tree spraying? Well it saved me …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange (II)
14Saturday 07 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a rather obvious collection of images for me… Why?, well we …
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Citrus Tree Care – Copper Sulphate
10Tuesday 03 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With the citrus trees afflicted with a fair degree of moss, lichen crustaceans, and general leaf decay, the best treatment by far …
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Citrus Tree Care – Shoot Pruning
15Thursday 26 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Pruning of the citrus trees is really only necessary every three years, when you can end up cutting large branches to …
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Trees in Need of Some TLC
15Tuesday 24 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As posted a while ago, the citrus trees have had a tough year, with a long hot dry summer that went …
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Red Spider Decimates Peas
28Tuesday 08 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I once heard or read somewhere how many hundreds of different types of Red Spider there are our there. I …
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Ploughing, Or Plowing?
21Tuesday 04 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Now that’s the big question… does one plough or plow? As the vast majority of my readers and followers are …
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Hands Up For Goat Poo!!
8Tuesday 25 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Mid to late February. Usually that means farming chores in good weather… and this year is no exception. For 10 …
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Winter Fruit Picking…
18Thursday 21 November, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Winter citrus fruit harvest time is here again. Last year was a disaster, with 99% of the crop unsold, so …
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Let’s Get Fruity
18Thursday 24 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
It’s autumn I guess here now. We’ve had a couple of big storms that have battered us after the long 4 …
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Winter Is Coming… To Türkiye
5Tuesday 24 September, 2013 by Uncle Spike
We are both avid fans of the epic TV series, Game of Thrones, based on the novels by George R R Martin. …
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