Share your favorite feel-good citrus photos
It's nasty cold outside now and I'm looking at weather news and wondering if all the time I invested in covering my trees yesterday will be "fruitful"....sorry.
I was looking for some older photos on my hard drive and ran across a folder of citrus photos. Some remind me of warmer days and some are photos of trees that got taken out in the hard freeze in 2021.
I know lots of you also have feel-good photos we all want to see.
Here are a few to start.
Feel-good is often an anticipation of a dessert so here are ingredients for a strawberry/lemon (meyer) sorbet.
Dead ripe Satsumas from 2016
And juicing some...
Blood orange juice is sooo tasty!
And some Ponderosa lemons
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last yearI'll drop in and share one. Here's my fukushu a few years back.
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This tree has flowered profusely 3 times but set no fruit
Fruit from seed grown tree that I got the bud from for the pictured tree above.
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last yearlast modified: last yearJust a few key limes off my tree. Gotta start squeezing and freezing.
key lime pie never lasts very long in our house.
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last yearPicked another ripe Fukushu kumquat. This one is on C35
In a teaspoon. It was tasty
otcay
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My lemons are overdue to be picked. The tangerine has another month to reach full sweetness.
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last yearAnother Fukushu kumquat from the same tree I mentioned above
It was slightly sweet with no flesh or seeds and had a very slight biter after taste
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last yearThis is today's harvest: I went out between raindrops and gathered up the fruit that had been wind-blown and fell on the ground. As long as I was out there I picked all the rest off the Kumquat tree too since there weren’t very many.
There are quite a few still-green Key Limes hanging, but that’s good for a longer harvest. The Lemons are all ripe but they’ll hang until needed. I also have Meyer Lemons that are ripe and they’ll hang for a while longer.
I usually make a Kumquat Marmalade from the fruit, but I had a huge harvest last year and still have jars left. I will probably send most of the Kumquats to my grandson who loves them whole. They are just the right size to pop in one’s mouth - orangy-sweet on the outside and orangy-sour in the inside.
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