About This Episode

A reader needs help with tasteless satsumas.

Plus, Grumpys expert tip of the week.

Question Of The Week

“We’re all out of hope.

satsuma

We live in Biloxi, Mississippi, and have a lot of satsumas, we call air fruit.

The rinds are thick and the flesh is airy and tasteless.

What are we doing wrong?”

But tasteless fruit, likely results from a lack of nitrogen and phosphorous in the soil.

But first, let’s talk about what you usually do when you come back from the garden center.

You go off and you buy someperennialsor you buy a shrub or something.

Now, most people would just throw them away.

Or maybe it could be in the spring as well.

And then all of a sudden you hear you, we’re going to have an unexpected frost.

you could slip these pots over your plants.

They’re real easy and they’re free ‘cause you’ve already brought ‘em home.

And it’s, it’s a good temporary protection for your plants.

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