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pgkevet · « **on:** August 12, 2015, 09:37:27 pm »

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....

Kimbo · « **Reply #1 on:** August 13, 2015, 08:54:20 am »

that sounds lovely........
you have home grown lemons and grapefruit?? Are you in Spain?

pgkevet · « **Reply #2 on:** August 13, 2015, 09:58:44 am »

Quote from: Kimbo on August 13, 2015, 08:54:20 am

that sounds lovely........
you have home grown lemons and grapefruit?? Are you in Spain?

Wales

...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.