Homebody productiveness

[madbaker]

Yesterday, the fuzzy upstairs neighbor and I went back to the vintage clothing store where I bought my hat. He was interested in a Panama, and I wanted the ribbon changed. It's now a pewter gray that matches the trench more closely. Pictures may show up at some point. We also talked hat care and feeding, and petted the beaver felt hats he's making...

Also put up a cabinet in the laundry room. More storage is a Good Thing. And the curvy upstairs neighbor planted a dwarf Meyer lemon that the wife had picked up. "Dwarf" means it'll only grow to five feet tall and wide. Sure, lemons aren't expensive or hard to find, but I grew up in the SF Bay Area. Everyone had a lemon tree. Actually paying cash for lemons, as opposed to begging people to take them, just rubs me the wrong way. We're also thinking of getting a dwarf Seville orange (yay, marmalade and duck sauce!) but I'm not sure if we'll plant it, or just keep it in a pot so we can take it with us in the eventual move. One is easier but the other means we don't have to start over. roswtr, did you have any success with your potted orange?

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[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

We're also thinking of getting a dwarf Seville orange (yay, marmalade and duck sauce!)

I'm planning the same. Our climate is cold enough in December that I may have to keep it in a pot. Be careful of overwatering during the winter (rains).

I do have a blood orange in a pot that is flowering, so it can be done!

[roswtr.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Seville did very nicely in its pot and it produced fruit for two seasons. When we moved to Ben Lomond, I transplanted it to the back yard, and it wasn't as happy. I'll put it back in its pot and take it to the townhouse, but I don't know if it will recover. If it doesn't, I'll replace it.

I'm going to get a quince, too, but I'll probably wait until we settle permanently.

[aastg.livejournal.com]

Townhouse? Ou est le townhouse?

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

My Aunt, in Maine, had a lime in a huge pot on wheels for years in her sunspace, and it did very well. My Mom tells me you'll need to spray regularly for spider mites, or else the leaves will drop off. I have several limes from seed, and some super-sour mini orange, none of which have died yet, but they're still in smaller (8") pots.

[aastg.livejournal.com]

Yup, we had a huge lemon bush outside our front door in the El Cerrito house. It must have been 10 feet in diameter. It bore like crazy, fog notwithstanding, probably because 5 generations of our cats (and probably the neighbors' cats) used the ground under it as a latrine. We drank our lemonade and ate our lemon meringue pies and lemon sorbet in a spirit of enthusiasic denial...