[Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page

[Dick]

With six foot centers, competition between root systems will limit size to 
avaliable nutrients in limited space. Otherwise, plant in 15 gal pots or 
containers with about the same spacing. Use your imagination on containers. 
Plastic drums cut in half and nestled in soil work quite well with adequate 
drainage. The exit holes must allow intimate contact between the soil in the 
container and that beneath to prevent a zone of saturation near the 
container bottom. In other words, irrigation water must pass all the way 
through the root medium pulling oxygen in behind it.

Trees naturally large in the ground struggle a bit in containers but if you 
can deal with smaller yield. they will cope.  I have several.  Smaller 
varieties, Kumquats, Limequats, etc.,  do quite well in cramped quarters.

Dick Gross, Master Gardener Volunteer, U of A Maricopa County Cooperative 
Extension

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> How far apart should citrus trees be planted to have a mini citrus orchard 
> in the back yard?  What is the optimum gallon size for planting of citrus?
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