Growing a lovely, healthy lemon tree that allows you to pick a ripe fruit whenever your recipe calls for it is not that difficult, but you'll find that some common types of pests are attracted to ...

Q. What are these weird white things on my citrus trees? They don’t seem like they’re moving, but they sure do attract ants! Cottony cushion scale is a common pest of citrus, but can also infest other ...

Q: Last year, we bought a Meyer lemon and planted it in a large pot. We got more than 30 lemons off this little tree. I noticed a lot of sap near the base of the tree, then a bunch of furry little ...

Many people have a potted citrus plant or two that they keep indoors during the winter and move outdoors for the summer. It may be one of those dwarf trees that produce full-sized fruit. Or it could ...

Earlier this week, one of my neighbors told me that her Meyer lemon tree has had a bad infestation of scale insects for several years and that all of her attempts to eradicate the pests had failed. I ...

Days of daytime highs in the 50s, followed by a few days when temperatures dropped down to the low teens, were enough to fill Yakima’s night skies with gardeners’ dreams of escaping the freeze. Born ...