First Post! Welcome!

Thanks for joining me!  Last winter I was feeling the blues. Rochester winters are long, cold and dead.  The complete lack of green plant life drained my spirits, but things started to change when I started looking towards spring.  I became very intrigued about growing a container garden on my balcony as the year before I had only dabbled with the idea.

Many times that winter I would shovel out my car, clear off the snow and drive down Monroe Ave to the Barnes and Nobles in Pittsford. Luckily during the winter they still had a good gardening section.  There was a plethora of information on container gardening.  Some notable titles are "The Bounteful Container" by McGee & Stuckey, "Fresh Food from Small Spaces" by R.J. Ruppentha and not surprisingly "Container Gardening for Dummies" by Bill Marken.  At this point I was only thinking about vegetables in containers, as I never realized that fruit could be grown in pots - especially citrus.  Once I realized that I knew that I had to try.  I absolutely love Lemons and limes!

After researching which species make good container pets and reading how to plant and care for citrus I made the move to buy.  During the summer of 2010 I ordered a Meyer Lemon from Raintree Nursery (and they get theirs from Four Winds Growers).  It arrived no more than a week later in amazing condition.  I was in love.

That is basically how it all began.  This is a picture of the Meyer Lemon right after it was planted.  In the next post or couple posts I will give stage by stage updates of how things progressed till now.