🍋 Lemon
Fruit Trees · growing reference
| To first harvest | ~2 years – ~3 years, by type |
|---|---|
| Spacing | 180″ in the row × 216″ between rows |
| Planted as | tree |
| Water | ~1–1.5 in a week |
When to plant
In USDA zone 6, for example: Plant around Apr 29, once frost danger has passed. It's container-grown, so any mild spell after that will do.
| Spring | |
|---|---|
| Zone 3 | May 29 |
| Zone 4 | May 21 |
| Zone 5 | May 10 |
| Zone 6 | Apr 29 |
| Zone 7 | Apr 15 |
| Zone 8 | Mar 29 |
| Zone 9 | Mar 6 |
Dates are the typical window for each zone's average frost dates — your own last frost can differ by a couple of weeks. Zone 10 and warmer is effectively frost-free: plant to the season, not the frost. Southern Hemisphere: shift six months.
Lemon Types
- Meyer · ~2 years · 50–100 lbs/plant — Lemon × mandarin — hardiest and smallest, bears in 1–2 years, THE container lemon.
- Eureka · ~3 years · 100–200 lbs/plant — The grocery lemon — nearly everbearing in a mild climate, thornless, frost-tender.
- Lisbon · ~3 years · 100–200 lbs/plant — Vigorous and thorny — takes desert heat and a light frost better than Eureka.
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