I hope you get your oranges this year Val, mmm fresh oranges sounds wonderful. As far as a green thumb though, I don't think I'm particularly talented really. Most of our stuff we just stick it in the ground and it is on its own, but I do try to find stuff that is "easy" to grow. The strawberries just came bare root in the mail order and we soaked the roots and stuck them in the ground. That's about all we did besides David pinched off the blooms for awhile when they first started blooming to encourage stronger roots first.