Jaime and I grow citrus trees. Well, we try to, at least.

We’ve got three citrus trees right now: A Eureka Lemon– the kind you would buy at the store, a meyer lemon– believed to be a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange, and a calamondin– a miniature sour orange.

We’re currently in the market for a Persian lime, which is the standard seedless lime found in the grocery store. We’re also on the lookout for a Mexican lime (key lime) and a kumquat, which is the most cold-hardy of the edible citrus.

The citrus we grow are grafted. They take a disease-resistant and cold-resistant rootstock and graft onto it a scion from a full-sized citrus tree. Once the graft is healed, the resulting tree will bear fruit, but not grow very tall at all.

Here are our citrus trees:

Growing citrus is lots of fun, the fruit is excellent, and, in pots, you can grow them in practically any zone. Why don’t you grow some citrus trees of your own?