Planting a lemon tree
Apr 22nd 2006, 8:31 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by snowbunny
What cultivar of lemon? Meyer is the most common and will do okay in a container.
Here's one website for the JI recipes:
http://www.the-organic-gardener.com/...html#jirecipes
Also:
http://www.backyardgardener.com/soil/soil2.html
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American compost = aged decayed organic matter, usually vegetable and animal manure -- NO SOIL or artificial nutrients
British compost = American "potting soil" -- can contain soil and artificial nutrients
Here's one website for the JI recipes:
http://www.the-organic-gardener.com/...html#jirecipes
Also:
http://www.backyardgardener.com/soil/soil2.html
nb
American compost = aged decayed organic matter, usually vegetable and animal manure -- NO SOIL or artificial nutrients
British compost = American "potting soil" -- can contain soil and artificial nutrients
Thank you for this, Amy!
But don't you have better things to do?
Apr 22nd 2006, 8:33 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by Elvira
Thank you for this, Amy!
But don't you have better things to do?
But don't you have better things to do?
Yes didn't think we would hear from you for a few days.
Apr 22nd 2006, 8:44 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Yes didn't think we would hear from you for a few days.
Apr 22nd 2006, 8:45 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Rotherham are at home.
Ah well let's hope they win!
Apr 22nd 2006, 8:46 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by Elvira
Ah well let's hope they win!
Apr 22nd 2006, 8:48 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
I'm only guessing here, but it's a euphemism for something else
Quite...
Apr 22nd 2006, 8:50 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Rotherham are at home.
Oh no!! Not fishdocks?!!
Apr 22nd 2006, 8:56 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
I'm afraid the side arrived just as I was leaving work to pick up Toon from the airport.
Bloody luck.
Bloody luck.
Apr 23rd 2006, 11:17 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
I'm in Anorak mode, I like gardening I had an allotment when I was 35
I had an allotment when I was 35 NC Penguin
Apr 23rd 2006, 11:21 am
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
Can the allotment do double duty as a cemetary plot by any chance?
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Apr 23rd 2006, 1:49 pm
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by Elvira
Having switched from slut mode to Charlie Dimmock mode (oops is there a difference?), I have spent the past half hour digging a deep, deep hole ... to plant a lemon tree.
Only to hit a bloody concrete slab! Bloody builders!!!
DAK if a lemon tree will be happy in a large pot or half barrel?
Thanks for any advice!
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Only to hit a bloody concrete slab! Bloody builders!!!
DAK if a lemon tree will be happy in a large pot or half barrel?
Thanks for any advice!
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Experienced teacher of ... other things
'ing, that is.Anyway, I can confirm that lemon trees grow just fine in a half-barrel or large pot... but unlike Snowbunny, I don't have a ******' clue what variety I'm talking about, nor whether that makes a damned bit of difference!
Apr 23rd 2006, 1:50 pm
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by dbj1000
I think your question's been answered... I think. In between talk of visiting football teams and 'ing, that is.
Anyway, I can confirm that lemon trees grow just fine in a half-barrel or large pot... but unlike Snowbunny, I don't have a ******' clue what variety I'm talking about, nor whether that makes a damned bit of difference!
'ing, that is.Anyway, I can confirm that lemon trees grow just fine in a half-barrel or large pot... but unlike Snowbunny, I don't have a ******' clue what variety I'm talking about, nor whether that makes a damned bit of difference!
Apr 23rd 2006, 2:21 pm
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by dbj1000
Oh B0LLOX, since when has f e c k 1 n been censored?
It's an "Italian" lemon tree, btw.
Apr 23rd 2006, 3:00 pm
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by Elvira
It's an "Italian" lemon tree, btw.
Apr 23rd 2006, 3:16 pm
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Re: Planting a lemon tree
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Naturally, your love for opera and all.
How very true.
Though I also like German, Austrian, French, Czeck, Russian and English opera
Not sure whether any of these nations are any good at producing lemons though
