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Darling-Sweetie BBC2 Digging Deep
Bob Hobden wrote:
So we in the south can all grow olive, lemon and orange trees in our gardens...news to me, they won't survive in most of warmer London either, only in specific garden microclimates (like Dave Poole's). You need to drag them back inside to avoid the frosty weather. There are a few folks growing lemons, mandarins and even avocados within the London conurbation Bob, but most of the oranges need more heat. Outside of the 'heat-sink' area, the frequency and intensity of winter frosts is too great. Of course gardening luvvies like these don't worry about such trivia. They are only concerned with the immediate effect and never stop to consider what happens over the ensuing months and years. Oranges will grow here and produce fruit, but the sweet flesh does not develop at low temperatures so they are only useful for ornament or for using the rind/zest in cooking. I've been experimenting with Limequats recently. This is a hybrid between the Florida Key lime and Nagami Kumquat. Limes need a lot of heat to grow well and are the least cold resistant of the citrus family. However, the kumquat is remarkably cool tolerant and the fruit develops quickly. These qualities are passed down to the hybrid although the fruits are quite small. Mine flowered in June this year and I picked several fruits this weekend. The flavour was excellent. Pick them green if you want a lime, wait a couple of months and pick them yellow if you want a semi-sweet lemon. Back to this programme, 'Digging Deep' quickly reached the expected nadir of pseudo-horticulture and managed to keep me awake for less than 10 minutes. What I saw was pretentiously plebby and about as gripping as a blancmange handshake. However, on the bright side, I got a good couple of hours unexpected zzzz so for me it was therapeutic. |
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