When life hands you lemons, break out the tequila and salt. These days, gourmet tequilas offer new variety to today’s consumers. There are more than 600 brands of tequila on the market. High-quality ...

Question: Hi, I'd like to add a question to the recent post about leaf-cutter ants. I have a potted Mexican lime tree that has been inhabited by an ant colony for several months. They are chewing ...

Referring to your column of Aug. 8, you stated that lime trees are grown on their own roots, not grafted onto other rootstock like other citrus. Eleven years ago we planted a beautiful Mexican lime ...

Q: I have a Bearss lime tree with some fruit that has green and yellow and sometimes brown vertical striping on the rind all the way around. It is beautiful, but what causes it? Is the fruit still ...

SAN ANTONIO — When lime prices sail to the stratosphere, Pat Brown and backyard citrus growers like her don't notice. Brown, a Bexar County Master Gardener, stops counting each after harvesting about ...

It seems now that summer is upon us, we can finally commiserate on the fruit tree front. Apricots are still weirdly bare of leaf. There are only four tiny peaches on the peach tree. The plum ain’t got ...

California’s season for limes is much earlier than for most other citrus. Some limes show up at farmers markets through the winter, and a very few year-round, but September to December is the time of ...

If the prices of a margarita or guacamole have been too high for you lately, blame it on a key ingredient of the Mexican treats — the lime. Prices for limes, imported almost exclusively from Mexico, ...

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