Maybelline's Garden

Grapefruit - Rio Red Bounteous amounts of citrus means the calendar is closing in on Christmas time.  Here in Bakersfield and probabl...

Rain! We received heavenly rain.  It even looks like we may receive more. Keep it coming. The weather is beautiful and cool. Most all of the...

(Owari) Satsuma Mandarin We've had rain!  Holy cow.  It finally happened.  Wonderfully cool, wet weather has arrived.  The garden ha...

Rio Red Grapefruit Well, well, well.  Looks like all I had to do was to wait a bit and Blogger would sort out the mess that kept me from...

Checking on the fruit trees on this sunny afternoon.  The espalier were pruned some time ago.  They had the 1st application of dormant spray...

The Rio Red Grapefruit was planted February 14, 2009.  It looks like I may be able to enjoy fruit about 2 years after planting.  This is a...

The replacement Satsuma Mandarin tree was potted today.  Sadly, the 1st tree didn’t make it. Four Winds Growers in Winters, California pro...

March 26, 2009 Okay.  What in the Wide World of Sports is going on with my Satsuma Mandarin Orange?  I believe it may be blight.  I’ve see...

On Saturday morning, I noticed that the apple (Granny Smith) had busted into blossoms.  Like all the other fruit trees in the garden, the bl...

This year we planted quite a few trees.  Not shade trees.  Not pretty-to-look-at trees.  Fruit trees.  Trees that really earn their keep.  S...

Here in California citrus grows most everywhere.  I have 4 trees in my garden:  mandarin, lemon, orange, and grapefruit.  These are baby dwa...