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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: pgkevet on August 12, 2015, 09:37:27 pm
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Wife's away grandchild sitting.. all my jobs are done, chickens shut away, kitchen tidy, everything fed including me.
I've just poured a very large Gin and Tonic but too lazy to go out and pick a lemon so stuck a slice of home grown grapefruit in it... Aaah, nice ... lets wait for the perseids....
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that sounds lovely........
you have home grown lemons and grapefruit?? Are you in Spain?
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that sounds lovely........
you have home grown lemons and grapefruit?? Are you in Spain?
Wales ;D ...lemons, grapefruit, limes.. a kumquat that hasn't fruited for years for some reason. I lost my orange tree a few years ago. Winter they go into a twinwall polycarbonate house with frost free heating, spring they come out to play. I bought them years ago when i lived in surrey and grew palms and orchids as well but i don't have the urge to grow stuff that need a a lot of heat now. I grew bananas one year and even went nuts enough to try and grow breadfruit and coffee. It's all do-able if you throw the resources at it. The citrus is a lot hardier than folk think and i get a couple of dozen lemons a year, same in lime. the grapefruit rarely get really full size - I think it's a dwarfing rootstock.
When they flower in the greenhouse the scent is amost overwhelming.
(http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t361/Peter_Knapp/CAM00253_zpszjox7sci.jpg)
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Wow, I'm really impressed. :thumbsup:
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Oh, wow. Article about citrus growing in Home Farmer thsi month. :thumbsup:
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Crikey!! Bowing down and worshipping you here. That's amazing :trophy: