Amateur Gardening

Time to try citrus

IS the idea of relaxing on the summer patio, reaching out and picking a lemon to slice for your end-of-the-day G&T or a lime for your Mexican beer, a myth or a reality? Trust me, if it were a myth I wouldn’t be settling down to explain how to grow your own lemons. And limes, oranges and grapefruit, too.

Of course, citrus fruits are not as tough as apples and plums, so you can’t just plant them in the garden or leave them outside all the year round. But they’re very happy to grow in containers so,

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