Finally bearing fruit
Monday morning cup of thoughts
For a decade, we've lived in the foothills, most of those years spent coaxing our lemon tree to bear fruit. After moving the tree twice, our efforts finally paid off this year. I often find my life lessons in nature. Our environment and the people we choose to sustain and nurture us are crucial in becoming who we are meant to be.
As a fellow plant lover, I rejoice that you got that tree to flower and produce lemons. I'm glad the elements of light, temperature, nutritious soil, and location produced this miracle.
Great basket of lemons!! My mouth is puckering just thinking of the taste! 😝
live in New England, Southern Maine, and about 3 years ago, I started 6 lemon seeds from organic lemons in a bag of moist soil in a dark cupboard. 5 sprouted. Over the next two years, 3 thrived and are in a sunny window inside my home. I put them outside in their pots during the summer. I just trimmed them to a manageable height and size the other day. Now they are all about 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall. I don’t know what I’ll do with them when they get bigger, maybe give them away to friends who have winter greenhouses.
This year—late summer, I noticed a white butterfly hovering around them and landing on the leaves. Upon closer inspection after she left, I found tiny eggs! OH no ya don’t! I rubbed off the ones I could find, and a couple I missed hatched out tiny worms that started to eat the leaves. GAH! So each day, my mission was to seek and destroy. It had been a weird summer weather wise so a lot of my other gardens were attacked by bugs.
Actually my favorite citrus is limes. I love to drink a full glass of Lime (or lemon) water first thing in the morning, But how come limes don’t have seeds in them? I may invest next year in one of the little lime trees my local greenhouse sells.
Gardening is always an experiment in how to nurture better each year. But some plants, like some friends, I’ve had to allow to go by the wayside in favor of starting anew. 🤗