GROWING LIME THE BEST LIMES TO GROW IN YOUR GARDEN
trees and also discuss a very popular
delicious fragrant and aromatic lime you
can grow in your garden so here are some
of the common lime varieties that you
can grow the most common lime variety
grown around the world is the key lime
or Mexican lime the portion lime also
called the Tahiti lime or the Bears lime
is one of the most popular variety grown
in the United States and which is what
we will be seeing in today's episode and
there is also a variety of lime called
kaffir lime that is grown more for its
leaves its aromatic leaves although it's
fruits are edible so let's look at the
Bears lime tree in detail the Bears lime
tree produces green limes to start with
and these green lines eventually become
bigger and turn into a yellow color when
they're mature the Bears lime tree is
both thornless and also produces
seedless fruits so it's one of the best
varieties of lime for the home gardener
because with no thorns it's a lot safer
to handle and seedless fruits means that
it's just easier to use them
now another thing that you will notice
about the Bears Lyme is that it's a very
prolific plant it grows throughout the
year it produces limes throughout the
year and it just keeps growing and
growing and giving you lots of limes
good sized limes throughout the year the
Persian lime is also called the Bears
lime after the person John bears who
invented this variety so let's talk
about two important things about the
lime tree and it's also applicable to
any other citrus tree so let's look at
the fertilizer schedule for limes and
other citrus trees so here are some
examples of fertilizers that you can use
for your citrus plants and remember that
they need to be applied first when you
start seeing lush green foliage that
starts out usually in the beginning of
spring which is around February in
California now the other thing that you
need to take care of our leaf miners and
insects on the citrus plant and you can
click on the video on your screen now to
see that in detail so you can start
harvesting Persian limes or the Bears
lime as soon as they turn green and
about this size about golf-ball-sized
maybe a little bigger and they're
perfectly edible and very fragrant
delicious and full of flavor even at
this stage and limes are mostly
harvested when they're green but you can
also harvest them a little later when
they start becoming a little yellow like
you see here and this is probably the
best time to harvest it when they turn
slightly yellow that's the time they
have grown to their full size and will
start ripening and turning yellow from
then on and the Persian limes drop from
the tree when they turn yellow so let me
show you how this lime looks like
like after being cut this is a pretty
nice-sized lime which has just started
to ripen and as you can see here there
are absolutely no seeds in this lime
which make it so easy to use this lime
now pruning your lime tree is a very
important step that you have to do every
year make sure that you remove all dead
branches remove any stems that are very
weak and very small and kind of shape
your tree so that it forms a nice canopy
cut any branches that grow inwards
towards the tree and make sure that
sunlight is evenly distributed all
around your citrus plant so do you grow
lime if so which variety do you grow or
which variety would you like to grow I
would love to hear from you so do let me
know send in your comments and I hope in
today's episode you got an idea of what
portion limes are and I'll see you again
soon happy gardening
