Over the last few years I have gotten an increasing number of questions about growing citrus, especially satsumas, in Georgia. The early farmers were looking for information on how often cold conditions occur to convince their insurers to cover them in the event of frost. Since then, the number of acres of satsumas has grown tremendously. The Christmas freeze in 2022 really tested the growers and their plants since it was the coldest it had been in several decades. Fortunately, most growers were able to harvest a lot of their fruit before the frigid air arrived. They used water sprayers to protect the grafts on the trees, and even though a lot of the leaves were lost, they are already growing back. You can read more about it in this article by Brad Haire in the Southeast Farm Press.
