[mike2niner4]

Hey,

I want to grow a lemon tree and i live in the UK...

Whats the best variaty for a large cropping, small, tasty tree?

Many Thanks

Mike

[Kate and her Ducks]

I think that four seasons and meyer are ok but I have never had much luck with lemons. Did have a fantastic lime for years that cropped reliably on a window ledge Was heart broken when it died :cry:

[mike2niner4]

How come you didn't have much luck? Are they quite hard?

[SG6]

Four  Seasons is good, think it is the one I have.
They like being outside and can take some cold, mine goes out in April and I bring it in about Oct/Nov.

Bought it at the Citrus Centre. This year outside it has sort of run amok and is a lot bigger then when it went out. May have been putting it into a bigger pot and new compost.

Not sure where you are in the UK, but if you haven't one at the moment then it may not be a good time to get one. Simply because you will have to bring it inside soon and it can be a little difficult getting the conditions right. Then again you will have to do it one day.

Mine goes into a bright but unheated room and is watered about once a week. If you have a conservatory the great go ahead.

[SG6]

Just checked, mine is a type called Verna.
May go find out about it now.

[Kate and her Ducks]

Don't know why I didn't do so well, sure it will be something I didn't do right. Did have loads of problems with scale insects draining the life from them and sometimes I was not as attentive as I should have been. Also do not have anywhere bright and warm like a conservatory over winter.

[SG6]

Agree that scale insect is a major problem especially when they are indoors.

As I said I found that  an unheated bright room was the best. I had previously overwintered them in the same room but had a small radiator on (not a lot) in the room. Both lemon and lime lost leaves heavily each year, 2 of.

Then one year I simply never got round to turning the radiator on and  they didn't lose any leaves, well 6 in 5 months. So now it an unheated room for overwintering.

Last overwintering spell the lime grew 4 limes that went into cheese cakes.

Don't think that lemons are what we would term tropical, much more a temperate tree. I think however that our winter may be a little colder then it really prefers and more likely insufficent sunlight during our winter.

Limes are tropical.

[chrissie B]

we have a friend who's hubby is from Albania and his dad grows lemons he says they are very sweet for lemons and you can eat them like an orange so i have asked him to get me one on his next visit , i don't know the name of them but will try to find out .
Chrissie b

[Johndeb]

We grow one in a border in the garden outside all year (it is against a south facing wall).  It crops 8 years out of ten and gets virtually no scale insect.  I cover it with fleece if there is a frost warning, but when I forget it just drops its leaves and grows them again.  The type is Four seasons, but you only get one fruitng here.

A neighbour of my mum had one on a first floor balcony in a tub in central London.  It stayed out all the time and she covered it with a sheet if it was cold.  Her best crop (if I remember right) was over 10 Kilos in a summer....

[SG6]

Chrissie: The following is the description of a lemon that the citrus centre have, happened to read it yesterday, then your posting today. Sounds similar:

Lemonade. This lemon hybrid, as it's name implies, when squeezed produces the perfect thirst quencher (no sugar needed) but can also be peeled and eaten just like an orange.