Thread: In the Garden 2019

Up here in the frozen wasteland of Hoth, lemons - or anything - growing on trees seems a long way off!

Those lemons look gooooood...

If you were closer, I would give you one. Plenty heavy, Roy!
Think I will figure out how to make a lemon pie. Slicing and putting in water/tea seems a waste.
One year I got 24 of these beasts. Juiced them and made lemon ice cubes. Instant lemonade!

Hey! How do you make Lemon Essential oil?

My best friend lives outside of San Diego and he has a Lemon Tree, an orange Tree and a Lime Tree. And I've had the fresh citrus.

I think that the Lemon and Lime are Dwarf Tree Varieties but the Orange Tree is pretty big.

Many years ago I took my family to visit my dad's oldest sister in Glendale CA and my daughter was 8 years old. My aunt had a lemon and an orange tree in her back yard and my daughter was just beside herself. I told her that it was no big deal as back home we had apple, pear, cherry, plum trees and she gave me a 'Are you stupid look' held an orange that she'd just picked and said "Dad---These are ORANGES"!

My aunt and some of the neighborhood kids had used an old green glass Sunkist hand squeezer and she had frozen the juice in ice cube trays and had bags and bags of frozen juice in her freezer. I still have that squeezer and use it whenever I need some fresh juice.

HAR! I have a customer who just brought me a huge bag of 'Meyer Lemons' sez he. Planted an orange too close to a lemon.
Smaller tangy oranges from the orange tree. Tons every year. Usually get a 2 month supply.


I have a 50's 'Juice O Mat'. Time to give it the annual clean and polish. Do 2 every morning!

It's too small for MY lemons, however!

Pretty slick looking, bet it works like a charm.

My aunts looks like this---------


Years ago Safeway got sold on making fresh squeezed OJ in the produce dept. The machine was pretty cool. You loaded the valencia oranges (they put out more juice than navels) in the top and started the machine, an orange would drop down then be sliced in half and were turned cut side down then two arms with rubber cups would squeeze the oranges and then an arm kicked the spent 1/2's out the back where they landed in a trash bucket.

Those machines cost a bit over $8000.00 It was a major pain in the arse, replacement parts were super expensive (an employee broke the reservoir and a new one cost $200) the program only lasted a couple of years. Those $8K machines were sold for $400 each!

Nothing like Corporate!!

YES! I have a green depression glass one about like that. Never used it, tho.
Remember the electric ones where the middle went round?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

YES! I have a green depression glass one about like that. Never used it, tho.
Remember the electric ones where the middle went round?

Treat it with care, I can't remember where I saw it but one just like that the seller had listed for $75!!