[Mama Lori]

Since fertilizer is supposed to be applied and worked into the soil from the plant to out past the dripline, how do you do this for plants that are mulched? Do you have to push the mulch away each time you fertilize?

For example, with my dwarf Meyer lemon tree, I have to give it citrus food and iron each month (so it produces fruit and its leaves don't turn yellow), but I now want to mulch it to keep weeds away from it. Right now it is overrun with crabgrass and it is a nightmare!!

thanks

 

[gardenmom]

I can't imagine why fertilizer wouldn't run right through your mulch into the root zone...

Also, make sure your mulch does not touch the trunk at all, it apparently can cause rot and kill the tree from contact (specific problem to citrus).

 

[Mama Lori]

Didn't think of that! Thanks.