Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

This morning, the gardening kilt is dried. It doesn't look too bad, but I will still press it. The very ends of a few pleats like to get just a little bit of a curl behind the sewn in, outside edge. It's not too big of a deal to press it though.

* I pressed the kilt and went out to attack a patch of weeds with the mattock. I also dug a couple of small citrus trees up. It is nice to not be having to constantly pull up my pants.

I looked at a couple of bonsai that are fattening up in the ground. I will have to root prune them soon. It's also almost fertilizing time for all the citrus.

* For String, the citrus I dug up were Poncirus trifoliata (Flying Dragon and Citrus volkameriana (Volkamer Lemon). These are both used as rootstocks for grafting here.

The Flying Dragon will accept most citrus scions well even though it isn't a true citrus. it is also a dwarfing rootstock. I mostly use them for bonsai, but have grafted navel oranges on them. The resulting dwarf will only get about six feet tall.

The Volkamer Lemon will accept grafts of most if not all citrus, however, the fruit of the scion only come out good in the more acidic, less sweet varieties like tangelos. They, like most lemons, grow at a very fast rate, and can quickly become large bush-like trees without extreme pruning. They also have very sharp two to three inch long thorns that make the pruning difficult.

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