Wednesday, 6 May 2015

New Citrus Shoots

Not been outside much the past couple of days with high winds and downpours, except for the animal feeds, chores and quick checks on the veggie garden I have been in the cabin, details of what I have been doing are on my craft blog.

New exciting shoots have been appearing
This is a pip that my granddaughter found in her satsuma when they were up visiting over Easter, I offered to plant it for her, there were 4 pips in total this one is now setting leaves
This one is showing signs of growth as well, the other two are doing nothing, I will do my best to grow them on, it will take about 4 years before we could expect anything from them.
I do hope I have another two satsuma trees to join my citrus collection, I only have 1 satsuma tree and it produces the most delicious satsumas.

8 comments:

  1. Great to see them growing, mine are all doing well. My next challenge is Kiwi.

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    1. Kiwi need a fair amount of space otherwise they will become a garden thug, they are really easy to grow here and do fruit :-)

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  2. Wow I didn't think they would grow in our climates. I have to experiment myself.

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    1. you cant plant them outside, they need to be protected over winter :-)

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  3. I grew 30+ lemon trees from pips, which are planted on our smallholding. Only one tree has a single lemon - that has taken 5 years lol But, at least there are signs that the past 5 years wait was worth it...

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    1. I shall try oranges and lemons next also want to try from cuttings, I noticed you did some from cuttings :-)

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  4. Found this blog of yours after you commented on mine about getting out your knitting machine. What a wonderful life you have. My husband and I are trying to become more self sufficient too but we are nowhere as far along as you guys. Good for you!

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    1. welcome, we have been a long time in the planning :-)

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