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Citrus

Sean O'Hara mentioned a "balanced citrus fertilizer". Here in England we
can't get 
such a thing. (For my single Meyer's lemon here I make do alternating
tomato 
fertilizer with a seaweed-based general fertilizer.) Jerry Heverly's very
helpful notes made clear that there's no such thing as an ideal NPK ratio
for citrus with so much depending on planting position, but for us
med-attempters in non-med places like England who try to keep citrus in
pots, it would help to know what sort of NPK ratio is typical of a
"balanced citrus fertiliser". Can anyone say?

Question 2: We're just starting a small garden in coastal southern Greece
and once 
we've got irrigation going plan a very few open-ground citrus. Lemons grow
easily in 
that part of Greece and shouldn't be a problem, but locals say oranges are
more 
difficult on our steep terraces (ex olive grove on rocky hillside, soil
pretty thin), though 
people do grow them well on the richer deeper bottom ground. Is it a lost
cause to try 
oranges on our dry hillside? Any recommendations of varieties for dry
hungry 
ground? Any mileage in grafting oranges on more thrifty lemon understocks?
Any 
hope whatsoever for limes? (It's warm enough, but maybe the atmosphere's
too dry 
in summer - three or four virtually rainless months, with relative humidity
averaging 
45 to 50% then.)

Question 3: Any recommendations of a good book on growing citrus
non-commercially? (Maybe a good section on citrus in a more general
medit-garden-oriented book.)

Alisdair Aird (Sussex, England)
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