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If it weren’t for peaches, watermelon and lemons I’d not have eaten fruit as a child. I’m ok with other fruit now, not sure if I just didn’t want to try them as a kid or what. But I still hate the texture of apples and can’t stand strawberries. I’m kinda picky about many others.
I’ve had trouble growing melons on this land we have now. We have been here 11 years and I’ve liberally amended it each year. Much better but still not great. With melons I get either 1 or none per vine. I didn’t waste space with them this year. Unsure about what the virus would bring I packed every available space with things I knew would produce well.
Years ago on the garden thread we talked Meyer lemons. I never have time to get to that thread anymore but want to share that I now have 2 more producing trees that I raised from seed from my original. I’m calling that favor from God!
WARNING Food Slide:
Ha. I had a packet of old seeds for Minnesota Midget-a softball size melon that has a short maturity date-and I wanted to grow some just to have new seed.
So I tried to start some indoors but none of the 8 seeds sprouted. So I pitched the packet at the edge of the compost heap. Must have had 15 or so sprouted-dug some up and planted in one of the other raised beds and left the others in the compost heap.
I have a Meyer lemon that I bought last year. I also have a lemon tree of some sort that I bought about 8 years ago. I don’t know what it is—it was one of those 2 in 1 dwarfs that had lemons and limes. The limes-had thorns, so I just kept cutting those limbs off because I have to bring it indoors and there’s not enough room to avoid brushing against it.
Those lemons are the Best! They are big and round, thin skinned, and way more juicy and just a tad sweeter than regular lemons-a difference largely due to ripening on the tree I think.
Melons and Strawberries, mulberries and blackberries when I was a kid. Granny made the best jelly using grapes and blackberries —both growing wild on the back 40.