For your interest, and to help us keep track of things, this is what we’ve planted so far in the food forest: Fuji apple Cox’s Orange Pippin apple Granny Smith apple Sommerset Red Streak apple Golden Delicious apple Jonathon apple Kingston Black apple Sugar Loaf Pippin apple Maiden’s Blush apple cumquat Meyer lemon dwarf Kaffir [...]
Posts Tagged ‘lemons’
Tree planting map for the food forest
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged apple trees, avocado, cumquat, food forest, lemons, limes, map, oranges on December 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Street food comes to Lewisham
Posted in Growing our own food, Guerrilla gardening, tagged bay tree, Guerrilla gardening, kaffir lime, lemons, nature strip on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We’ve been steadily planting out on the nature strip. First the bay tree that moved with us from the old unit. Then a kaffir lime, and two dwarf lemon trees. Finally a lemon-scented tea tree. Yes, this is guerilla gardening, but not just for our own selfish benefit. From the outset, the aim has been [...]
Lemons into the nature strip
Posted in Growing our own food, Guerrilla gardening, tagged citrus, fruit, lemons, nature strip on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I ordered two dwarf myer lemons from Perry’s Fruit and Nut Nursery in SA. These are your typical Australian backyward lemon, but on “Flying Dragon” roostock, which according to the nursery is the only “true” dwarfing stock. This morning both lemons went into the nature strip, in front of our house. [...]
Lemons, limes and oranges
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, citrus, garden, lemons, limes, oranges, trees on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The last major task for the front garden this season was getting in the citrus trees. Two weekends ago, I started by marking out a garden bed 5.5m x 1.2m, and then dug that down to a depth of a foot-and-a-half (a back-breaking job!). I then constructed a treated pine frame to build the bed [...]
