It was fun to spend a bit of my weekend picking lemons from our tree! We have been living off these beautiful fruits for a several weeks now! Brit downed huge amounts during her recent illness with gallons of tea and local honey! Our salads have been bathed in fresh lemon juice picked right from the tree. We have for years been blessed with different fruits and veggies growing in our yard! I have spent many long days putting up fruit and vegetables with my girlfriend Bon. The children have always been spolied by being able to walk out back and eat fresh from our gardens! It was all new however when we moved! We are fortunate to live in an area where there are Farmers Markets and roadside stands everywhere you look. Some of our local grocers also fill their shelves with locally grown produce. Our backyard produce has now stretched a bit beyond our own backyard and our imagination grows as we try new fruits and veggies. With the busy schedule of teens and working out of the home for the first time in 18 years, having access to all these beautiful foods grown locally has been an amazing asset to our table! It would not be right however, if we did not have at least one form of fruit or vegetable growing right outside our door. Soon after arriving in our new home, we had many long days, weeks, and months of adjusting. During one of those quiet days while the children were at school and Wayno was off busy learning all he could baout almonds, I decided it was time to plant a lemon tree! Of all things to plant, one might think! This idea had been seeded within me long before we traveled the many miles over mountains and through deserts to arrive at this new home. This idea was planted by a dear neighbor from back home who said her favorite tree to grow while she lived out here was a Meyers Lemon tree and that I should try it once I got settled. You will receive hundreds of lemons each year, she said. I thought of Mary often this first year as I watched my tree change. First came blossoms which of course brought the bees! The scent was amazing and could be smelled from all over the yard. Soon, the blossoms gave way to teeny tiny lemons. We checked their progress often and wondered when they would be ready. There were times when I would question others as to if perhaps I had planted a lime tree because it could not possibly take lemons this long to ripen!!! As I read the local stories of restaurant owners rejoicing in the Meyers Lemons they can now use in their recipes as all the markets are flooded with them these days, I smile and rejoice as well because my kitchen is filled with the sweet scent of lemons and my hands are covered with their freshness as I spend hours today juicing them all and freezing the juice so that we will have months of juice at our fingertips! Thank you Mary for planting this idea in my heart so that we could share with you the experience of having lemons just out our door!
It was fun to spend a bit of my weekend picking lemons from our tree! We have been living off these beautiful fruits for a several weeks now! Brit downed huge amounts during her recent illness with gallons of tea and local honey! Our salads have been bathed in fresh lemon juice picked right from the tree. We have for years been blessed with different fruits and veggies growing in our yard! I have spent many long days putting up fruit and vegetables with my girlfriend Bon. The children have always been spolied by being able to walk out back and eat fresh from our gardens! It was all new however when we moved! We are fortunate to live in an area where there are Farmers Markets and roadside stands everywhere you look. Some of our local grocers also fill their shelves with locally grown produce. Our backyard produce has now stretched a bit beyond our own backyard and our imagination grows as we try new fruits and veggies. With the busy schedule of teens and working out of the home for the first time in 18 years, having access to all these beautiful foods grown locally has been an amazing asset to our table! It would not be right however, if we did not have at least one form of fruit or vegetable growing right outside our door. Soon after arriving in our new home, we had many long days, weeks, and months of adjusting. During one of those quiet days while the children were at school and Wayno was off busy learning all he could baout almonds, I decided it was time to plant a lemon tree! Of all things to plant, one might think! This idea had been seeded within me long before we traveled the many miles over mountains and through deserts to arrive at this new home. This idea was planted by a dear neighbor from back home who said her favorite tree to grow while she lived out here was a Meyers Lemon tree and that I should try it once I got settled. You will receive hundreds of lemons each year, she said. I thought of Mary often this first year as I watched my tree change. First came blossoms which of course brought the bees! The scent was amazing and could be smelled from all over the yard. Soon, the blossoms gave way to teeny tiny lemons. We checked their progress often and wondered when they would be ready. There were times when I would question others as to if perhaps I had planted a lime tree because it could not possibly take lemons this long to ripen!!! As I read the local stories of restaurant owners rejoicing in the Meyers Lemons they can now use in their recipes as all the markets are flooded with them these days, I smile and rejoice as well because my kitchen is filled with the sweet scent of lemons and my hands are covered with their freshness as I spend hours today juicing them all and freezing the juice so that we will have months of juice at our fingertips! Thank you Mary for planting this idea in my heart so that we could share with you the experience of having lemons just out our door!
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