New Citrus From Logee’s
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- April
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In just a few weeks, all of those plants you’ve been tending indoors for the winter can finally go back outside.
If you’ve never tried to grow a fruit tree, now’s a good time to get started on one. They’re fairly forgiving about growing happily outdoors in the sun for the summer and then coming inside for the winter with lots of hot, dry air.
Logee’s Greenhouses in Danielson, Conn., has a new citrus called ‘Sunquat’ that looks like great fun.
It’s a cross between a sweet Meiwa kumquat and a lemon and it’s supposed to be extremely prolific and free-fruiting.
It blooms year-round with highly fragrant flowers much like a kumquat.
Unlike other citruses, the fruit doesn’t come in a uniform size. Instead, the size is determined more by the size of the plant and the amount of fruit on the tree.
Byron Martin, the third-generation owner of Logee’s, says you should eat the fruit like a giant kumquat — rind and all.
Like other citrus trees, grow ‘Sunquat’ in a clay pot in full sun.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
