More About Meyer Lemons

(jessica)

OK, so when I saw this picture of the box of Meyer Lemons my sister is sending me, and everybody started talking about wonderful lemon recipes, I got a little crazy.

Maybe obsessed is a better word – with the idea that just maybe I could grow my own. You don’t see a lot of lemon groves here at 7000′ in the Rockies. So this has to be a garden room container type project.

I started doing research. I always knew my sister’s lemons were much sweeter than most lemons and a little orange-y. Knowing nothing about it, I thought maybe they cross pollinated with an orange tree.

And way back there somewhere, they did. Or a mandarin orange tree anyway. The Meyer Lemon is thought to have originated in China and to have been a combo of the lemon and the mandarin orange.

They proliferate in California (hmmm – should I move back?) and here is more than you even want to know about what they are and how to use them . . . from the LA Times

100 Things to Do with a Meyer Lemon

So, next to get the growing info . . . and of course I found a site called

MeyerLemonTree.com

Where I found out everything I wanted to know – container size, feeding, watering, pruning.

So I ordered a tree  from them – yes I did!

Then I started thinking about planting some from seed, but found out it would be 7 years or so before the seedling would become a fruit bearing tree. I learned so much more here . . .

Lemon Tree Very Pretty, etc

I am so excited I am just about hopping up and down. If my goofy tomatoes are doing as well as they are, Meyer Lemons should flourish. And the smell of the blossoms indoors – yum! And the leaves are so pretty!

I have never bought a tree online before, so I will share the experience when it arrives..