The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

mardatha

Wow - you have a lemon tree??? To me, that's exotic and tropical!

milasavesmoney

My son sprouted lemon seed and he keeps repotting it. It's not about 4 ft tall. Mrs. L, does your plant have a sticky sweet lemony substance on it? All his leaves do and we don't know if this is normal or a problem.

Softstuff

milasavesmoney wrote: »

My son sprouted lemon seed and he keeps repotting it. It's not about 4 ft tall. Mrs. L, does your plant have a sticky sweet lemony substance on it? All his leaves do and we don't know if this is normal or a problem.

Forgive me for jumping in Mila, the sticky substance is probably honeydew, it's excreted by scale mites or aphids, so it needs some treatment. White oil or neem oilwould do it, just be sure to cover every bit of it, leaves and branches, but it's a baby so that should be easy enough. If you see any little waxy white blobs on its branches pick them off with a glove hand first, they're only about 1/8", they're the protective covering of mites.

It's normal to have a few citrus trees over here and it's the most common thing that affects them. Reduces the health and growth of the tree because they're sap suckers.

And Jazee, I don't feel hard done by, because I seldom make an attempt to be good

burtha

Hi all , quick post ,
Loving the talk of what each meal is called , Unfortunately mine is quite simple .... kids/family is of course 1 . .. persuaded them to eat breakfast , successful only a few times a week ( the joy of teenagers ) 2 ..... lunch , eaten at school , 3 quick tea when there back home about 3 30 , normally sandwich,crisps,flapjack,yoghurt ... 4..... proper dinner at about 8pm , "real"meal followed by cake or sometimes rice pudding
for me I am afraid it's more like work all day , prep food for others , don't /carnt do breakfast or midday meal, eat about 8pm , if with kids and have time ,otherwise kids at table and I am loading washer,filling dishwasher,sorting homework, feeding dogs , talking with kids at the same time , ...otherwise 9 pm or 10 pm ...or is working at club normally about midnight ..... then repeat the next day ....

and clotted cream ....no ...horrid stuff .... but then so is any cream ...or milk ....or yogurt....or anything with banana in ...
can j stick with a salad or a decent cheese toasted sandwich,with onion ....lol

mcculloch29

My Estonian Mum always made lunch as the main meal of the day. Tea was something like soup or sandwiches. Supper was just a drink of hot milk. Breakfast was cereal one day and some way of doing an egg the next, be it fried with bacon, boiled with soldiers, poached on toast (bleurgh, toast was always waterlogged, egg horrible), or scrambled.

After eating eggs, which I really dislike, every other day for some 16 years, I swore never again.. My children had them sometimes for brekky, but mostly it was cereals and toast.

My schools were all less than a mile away so I walked home for lunch from age 5 to 18, never had a single school dinner. My children did though.

Mum never fully got to grips with British cooking and boiled a lot of her meat. I never knew what pork or lamb chops actually tasted of until I left home. My brother went mad at her. Worse was when she always boiled the beef for the Sunday joint, though she did roast lamb, chicken and a hand of pork.
My beef now is always served very, very rare, ditto lamb. Mum cremated it, near enough.

I never had steak until after I left home and it took me a while to realise that well done equated to ruined, that blue and rare was how it must be eaten. I know that many will disagree, well, feel free, but I know how it all tastes to me.

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WE grew out little lemon from a seed that had a tiny rootlet when I cut open a lemon to use with fish, the excitement when it put out tiny dicot leaves was immense. MILA it's lovely and shiny and clean leaved but it lives inside on the kitchen window sill and only goes outside when it's warm enough that I think it will benefit. I bring it back inside overnight in case it gets too cold for it (gosh, I sound like a MUM).

mardatha

Plants are living things and need care MrsL

ivyleaf

Interesting about the history of banoffee pie - I too had thought it was American

I've definitely got used to the builders being over the road. Slept right through until nearly nine this morning :eek: Now and then they have a big truck reversing onto the site and beeping as it goes; that does wake me. But this morning DS told me I'd slept right through a police car's siren starting up at the end of our road which had made him jump!

I must be needing the sleep, but I could do without the bizarre dreams.

Hard_Up_Hester

I went to watch 2 of the DGC in their sports day yesterday, they were so excited to see me, the twins were also pleased to see me but that could have been more to do with the chocolate buttons //I gave them.
Last night the other DD dropped off a bed so I can dress my bedroom and also for one of the DGC to sleep in this weekend as I have all four staying so she can work, her hubby and mine are going to Silverstone to watch the Grand Prix. I'm hoping to have them days a week during the holidays to give her a break too.

I was awake until 4am this morning so will probably need a nanna nap later. But not until I've been to the butchers and supermarket and bought supplies for the Silverstone trip, mainly burgers and beer!

ivyleaf

Hester I hope the break will do your husband good but I wish you were getting a break as well! x