Tangerine Crème Brûlée

Our Fremont tangerine tree was a skinny, runty-looking tree when we brought it home more than fifteen years ago. We nurtured it, planted it in the best location of the sun-filled garden, and did all we could to keep our Rhodesian Ridgeback from trampling it for the first two years. It wasn’t, however, as healthy as we’d hoped. Then all of a sudden, after the second year, it seemed to hit a sweet spot in the soil and had a growth spurt to incredible heights. Our little “Charlie Brown” citrus