- 1). Buy a Eureka lemon tree from a nursery. Take the plant out of its pot and rinse the roots, slowly exposing the outer edge of the roots. Dig a hole the same height as the plant and twice its width in a sunny location with well-drained, fertile soil.
- 2). Place the Eureka lemon tree in the hole and fill it halfway with the soil you originally dug out. Wet the soil so it settles around the exposed roots. Fill the rest of the hole with soil. Make sure the soil height is the same as the surrounding landscape or higher.
- 3). Use soil from a different part of the yard or garden to build a small, circular wall about 6 inches high and 5 inches thick around the plant. Position the wall a foot from the tree. This will be your watering ring.
- 4). Water the Eureka lemon tree immediately after forming the watering ring. Water the tree again every three to four days after that. Gradually increase the watering interval to seven to 10 days, until the tree establishes itself. After that, water the tree every two weeks.
- 5). Fertilize the tree yearly in February, May and September once it is established. Use a cup of the ammonium sulfate fertilizer for every year that the tree ages, and split this amount equally over these three months.
- 6). Protect the tree against the cold. Use the blanket or tarp to wrap around the tree when the temperature drops below freezing. The tree will stop producing fruit if it is frozen.
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