{"id":584,"date":"2007-09-10T03:16:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/10\/lemons\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:54:02","slug":"lemons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/lemons\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>What are the ideal conditions for growing a lemon tree?<\/p>\n<p>Position:<\/p>\n<p>For the best results, plant a lemon tree in a frost-free, hot spot in the garden where it will receive at least 8 hours a day of sunshine and day time temperatures that range between 15-30\u00b0C. Add a good mixture of compost to the hole when planting and sprinkle bone meal over the soil occasionally. A tip from experienced gardeners is to a few lumps of crushed charcoal to the hole when planting a lemon tree to sweeten the soil.<\/p>\n<p>Watering:<\/p>\n<p>Water lemon trees regularly in the period when they are flowering and setting fruit, which is from July\/ August, to about march. If there is no rain, drench the roots of a lemon tree every three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Young lemon trees do well with a dose of balanced fertilizer in July, December and March. Start by giving the tree about 1 kg over a year and then gradually increase the amount until the tree is getting 7 kg per salts 3 times a year. Spread a thick layer of mulch on the roots, but keep the mulch away from the stem of the tree.<\/p>\n<p>Pruning:<\/p>\n<p>Pruning is very important:<\/p>\n<p>\u0095 Aim to have 4 \u0096 6 well orientated scaffold branches by the 1st year of bearing.<br \/>\n\u0095 Use many lighter cuts, rather then a few heavy cuts.<br \/>\n\u0095 Light should be able to penetrate the canopy of the tree, as high light levels increase sprouting improve fruit colour and sugar content.<br \/>\n\u0095 Prune, by trimming branches after fruiting. Every year, remove extra scaffold branches, crossed branches and thorny water shoots, as well as any suckers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lemons  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[844,843,845],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fruits","tag-fruits","tag-gardening","tag-lemons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/lemon-1.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sc0QIf-lemons","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 12:13:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}