How to grow fruit trees at home, in any US zone.
Honest, zone-by-zone guides to growing tropical, Mediterranean and unusual fruit in US gardens, pots and sunny windows. Written for the climate you actually have.
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Bring tender trees indoors and pick fall fruit
- Pots, any zoneBring potted mango, lemon and banana indoors Mango and lemon before nights near 40°F (4°C); banana before first frost.
- Pots, any zoneCheck leaves for scale, aphids and mealybugs Treat them before the pot comes in; they spread fast in a warm room.
- 7–11Pick Meyer lemons and Jiro persimmons as they ripen Lemons hold on the tree to December; Jiro ripens late October into November.
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Juniper Hale is the editorial pen name of How To Grow Fruits, a small independent publisher writing for gardeners across the United States. Every guide is researched against university extension sources, grower forums and nursery data, written for the USDA zone you actually live in, and reviewed before publishing. We don’t sell plants.
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