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Sweet lemons
Looking for a sweet??? lemon with a loose skin. My husband was the
gardener, but as he has gone to the garden in the sky it is left to this brown thumbed gardener. I live in SE Qld, frost free area.. Any suggestions appreciated. Please reply to group as fake address to prevent spam. Thanks, Sno -- To plant a garden, is to believe in the future |
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Sweet lemons
I'm not sure if it has a loose skin, but the lemonade lemons are sweet. They
Meyer lemons are also supposed to be sweet. Meyer http://plantsdatabase.com/go/49905/ "Snogoose" wrote in message ... Looking for a sweet??? lemon with a loose skin. My husband was the gardener, but as he has gone to the garden in the sky it is left to this brown thumbed gardener. I live in SE Qld, frost free area.. Any suggestions appreciated. Please reply to group as fake address to prevent spam. Thanks, Sno -- To plant a garden, is to believe in the future |
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Sweet lemons
Meyer Lemons
"Snogoose" wrote: Looking for a sweet??? lemon with a loose skin. My husband was the gardener, but as he has gone to the garden in the sky it is left to this brown thumbed gardener. I live in SE Qld, frost free area.. Any suggestions appreciated. Please reply to group as fake address to prevent spam. Thanks, Sno |
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Sweet lemons
John, That is exactly what I was looking for, the bush lemon type of fruit,
but I seem to be unable to buy a tree with fruit like the old bush lemons I knew as a kid. I could peel and eat the fruit just like eating a mandarin, as well as eating the thick skin. Beautiful. If you know where I can get a tree like this I would be most appreciative. Thanks, Sno "John Savage" wrote in message om... "Snogoose" writes: Looking for a sweet??? lemon with a loose skin. My husband was the gardener, but as he has gone to the garden in the sky it is left to this brown thumbed gardener. I live in SE Qld, frost free area.. Any suggestions appreciated. Please reply to group as fake address to prevent A loose skin on a mandarin makes it easy for kids to peel, but I'm puzzled why you would desire a loose skin on a lemon? I've never seen such a thing on lemons, anyway. The sweetest true lemon I've tasted has been a bush lemon. Their skin is thick (lots of pith) and wrinkled, but definitely not loose. When peeled the fruit was about half the size I'd started with, but I could easily break it up into segments and eat the pieces without wincing. Perhaps if you explain what attribute the loose skin will afford we can be more helpful. -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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Sweet lemons
"Snogoose" writes:
Looking for a sweet??? lemon with a loose skin. My husband was the gardener, but as he has gone to the garden in the sky it is left to this brown thumbed gardener. I live in SE Qld, frost free area.. Any suggestions appreciated. Please reply to group as fake address to prevent A loose skin on a mandarin makes it easy for kids to peel, but I'm puzzled why you would desire a loose skin on a lemon? I've never seen such a thing on lemons, anyway. The sweetest true lemon I've tasted has been a bush lemon. Their skin is thick (lots of pith) and wrinkled, but definitely not loose. When peeled the fruit was about half the size I'd started with, but I could easily break it up into segments and eat the pieces without wincing. Perhaps if you explain what attribute the loose skin will afford we can be more helpful. -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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Sweet lemons
"Snogoose" writes:
John, That is exactly what I was looking for, the bush lemon type of fruit, but I seem to be unable to buy a tree with fruit like the old bush lemons I knew as a kid. I could peel and eat the fruit just like eating a mandarin, as well as eating the thick skin. Beautiful. If you know where I can get a tree like this I would be most appreciative. Thanks, Sno I like to nibble on the lemon skin, too -- not the yellow zest, just the white pith. That's where the bioflavinoids are said to be, BTW, in the soft white part of the skin in citrus. I'd be surprised if anyone sells bush lemon seedlings. Perhaps you might find one at weekend markets? That might be a place to ask, anyway. I grew mine from seed. I like retelling the story: I bought a Meyer lemon from the fish and chip shop and found that the seeds inside it had started to sprout, so I planted a dozen of them and many grew. Five or six years later I had a vigorous Meyer lemon and a bush lemon tree bearing fruit the size of baseballs! I think that the bush lemon is the rootstock of most commercial lemon seedlings. So you could examine some and see whether there seems to be enough of the root stock that you could prune off everything above the graft and grow from the stock. Perhaps you'll find a damaged seedling somewhere that has begun sprouting from below the graft -- buy it and cut off at the graft and encourage growth from below the graft. There might even be someone here who has a bush lemon they'd like to give away. Seedlings that emerge in the compost heap will sometimes turn out to be bush lemons. Good luck in your quest! -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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