I'm Julie, and I live with my husband and three young daughters in New South Wales suburbia, Australia. This is the online journal I kept until recently, of how we are trying to live more simply & sustainably in suburbia.
This blog is on indefinite hiatus but please feel free to look around my archives for some inspiration in your own journey to living more lightly and sustainably.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Twenty Four :: Prodigious Lemon Trees ::
It's a dwarf Meyer Lemon and I'm glad I only planted one ;-) What people do with all the fruit off a normal-sized lemon tree, I have no idea!
Do you keep him in a pot or in the ground? I want to plant a lemon tree, but it has to be in a pot (we're renting) I've been told a Meyer is the best for planting in pots. yummy fresh lemons!
My lemon tree is having establishment problems. It threw out a single lemon last year (which we sacrificed as I heard that you shouldn't let a tree fruit in its first year). This year, nothing.
I put them out the front of my house with a sign on them. If you need one take one! We have a lot of people walk past our house, and they go in days. I wish more people would do it with their surplus fruit. It breaks my heart to see food rotting on the ground.
Oh a house without a lemon tree is a sorry state! My large lemon tree is loaded and a joy to me... What can you use all those lemons for...warm lemon and honey for colds, cleaner for stains in the laundry, cut on in half and add a tablespoon of salt and rub those gardening hands in...beautiful clean hands, jam making(2 lemons juice and rind) instead of jamset, cordial, lemon butter, lemon ring cake,lemon rice, Sour cream dip, lemon coconut fish, dips, lemon pudding...oh I can just go on. The list is endless! Hope this helps! Sorry I never give my lemons away:) Norma
Can I just say that some of us would love to have the problem of a lemon tree with too much fruit! I have a little one in a pot,in the greenhouse it's about 12 inches high, it did once have a lemon on it...:)Kathy in UK
Hello everyone, Thank you for your comments, and yep, lemons are awesome :-)
@Bianca, It was in a pot but I ended up planting it in the ground where it just took off! I think the new variety called Lotsa Lemons, which is bred for pots, is bred from the Meyer, which although bigger, is also good for pots. Mine did well, but not half as well as in the ground, it was set back each year in the very hot summers when I had trouble keeping water up to it. Still worth growing though!
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Yes, having a normal sized lemon tree, I am wondering that myself!
Do you keep him in a pot or in the ground? I want to plant a lemon tree, but it has to be in a pot (we're renting) I've been told a Meyer is the best for planting in pots.
yummy fresh lemons!
I know what people close to me who have productive lemon trees do: they give them to people like me who are losers in the lemon-growing department! :)
My lemon tree is having establishment problems. It threw out a single lemon last year (which we sacrificed as I heard that you shouldn't let a tree fruit in its first year). This year, nothing.
I put them out the front of my house with a sign on them. If you need one take one! We have a lot of people walk past our house, and they go in days. I wish more people would do it with their surplus fruit. It breaks my heart to see food rotting on the ground.
Squeeze the juice into ice cube trays and freeze it. Then you have fresh juice for cooking and cleaning all year.
Looks like a great tree :)
Oh a house without a lemon tree is a sorry state!
My large lemon tree is loaded and a joy to me...
What can you use all those lemons for...warm lemon and honey for colds, cleaner for stains in the laundry, cut on in half and add a tablespoon of salt and rub those gardening hands in...beautiful clean hands, jam making(2 lemons juice and rind) instead of jamset, cordial, lemon butter, lemon ring cake,lemon rice, Sour cream dip, lemon coconut fish, dips, lemon pudding...oh I can just go on.
The list is endless!
Hope this helps!
Sorry I never give my lemons away:)
Norma
Can I just say that some of us would love to have the problem of a lemon tree with too much fruit! I have a little one in a pot,in the greenhouse it's about 12 inches high, it did once have a lemon on it...:)Kathy in UK
Oh, gorgeous! I'm trying not to be jealous. The one thing I want that I cannot grow here in the north is lemons. Enjoy them. :)
Oh, gorgeous! I'm trying not to be jealous. The one thing I want that I cannot grow here in the north is lemons. Enjoy them. :)
We've two lemon trees, but here in Dunedin (46 degrees south - nearly!) we probably don't get the masses of fruit on them that you do!
Plus, we use a LOT of lemons in our cooking and in salads...mmmm...
Don't you just love fresh, home grown lemons?
Hello everyone,
Thank you for your comments, and yep, lemons are awesome :-)
@Bianca, It was in a pot but I ended up planting it in the ground where it just took off! I think the new variety called Lotsa Lemons, which is bred for pots, is bred from the Meyer, which although bigger, is also good for pots. Mine did well, but not half as well as in the ground, it was set back each year in the very hot summers when I had trouble keeping water up to it. Still worth growing though!
Cheers,
Julie
My friend makes lemon-butter wwith her surplus
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