Re: Growing Citrus

**L* L* <l*@gmail.com>**

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:24 PM, <dcamp911@gmail.com> wrote:

> *My previous Meyer lemon produced 90 lemons one year.*
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> Gardeners who live up north and buy lemons at the supermarket have no idea
> how wonderful a lemon picked off a tree in the family room can taste. Yes,
> TASTE. And a lemon meringue pie made with them …  heaven.
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> Duane Campbell
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Mine were good but the ones grown in Mexico sold at the local natural food
store were sweeter; probably growing in farm soil instead of pot with
constricted roots made the difference.

My Mother grew several calamondins in a basement sunroom. That was my first
taste of home grown citrus and they were delicious,
skin sweet, pulp sour.
Calamondin marmalade, ahhh....equal to gooseberry jam, my favorite,
Keillers Old English marmalade next in line....on English muffin,
hickory smoked pork tenderloin stuffed sausage, thick grits with homemade
sour butter, buckwheat cakes, maple syrup, scrambled homegrown eggs, ruby
red grapefruit and good coffee. The best Southern breakfast. Pittsboro, NC.
during my Gransfather's lifetime.

I put a lawn chair under the branches for support while the lemons were
ripening.
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