[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-31 Thread curtisdeltablues
Thanks for the tip on avocado pits in a smooothy.  Is it really good?
I have never eaten it. I'll have to do a search to see if anyone else
is preparing it somehow.  It is so freak'n big it would be nice not to
throw it away. The Vietnamese people here make avocado sweet smoothies
with sweetened condensed milk.

I also like key limes, but your ability to allow them to totally ripen
on the tree is where the magic happens.  I am jealous.  I also have 
kafir lime plant and use the leaves.  The Thai people here use the
zest of the fruit, not the juice for curries, but mine has never
produced fruit so I have to buy them frozen.



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, vashtirama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
 curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
 
  Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard
here
  in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:
  
  Meyer lemons rule!  I buy them at Whole foods whenever I see them. 
  Having them growing in your yard is the coolest thing ever.  If you
  had an avocado or Kit mango tree also I would declare you living in
  heaven.  I made some great Limoncello Liqueur with Meyer lemons.
  
 
 You are SO RIGHT about the avocado and Kit mango trees! We practically
 fast on them and add the avocado pits to smoothies.
 But about the Meyer lemons, the key limes from our tree beat them out,
 esp. if left on the tree to ripen so much that they fall off. They
 have a complex taste, about 5 tastes in one.
 We tried a Sweet Lemon tree (a Middle Eastern fruit apparently) and
 they really did taste like lemonade! Unfortunately they never
 developed any juiciness no matter what we did. It might be because
 we're in FL not Cal.; we couldn't get juicy blood oranges and
 pomegranates either.
 We also have a kaffir lime tree which we use for the leaves. It has
 never fruited so I don't know what they're like.






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-31 Thread Rick Archer
Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry





on 10/31/06 9:19 AM, vashtirama at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard here
 in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:
 
 Meyer lemons rule! I buy them at Whole foods whenever I see them. 
 Having them growing in your yard is the coolest thing ever. If you
 had an avocado or Kit mango tree also I would declare you living in
 heaven. I made some great Limoncello Liqueur with Meyer lemons.
 

You are SO RIGHT about the avocado and Kit mango trees! We practically
fast on them and add the avocado pits to smoothies.

You can eat avocado pits? I didnt know that. Please elaborate.


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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-31 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Are there any organic food distributors in fairfield?

Heh. The TMO has its own organic food certification program...


So yes, yes there are. 

Vedic City ONLY sells organic food...




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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-31 Thread vashtirama
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks for the tip on avocado pits in a smooothy.  Is it really good?
 I have never eaten it. I'll have to do a search to see if anyone else
 is preparing it somehow.  It is so freak'n big it would be nice not to
 throw it away. The Vietnamese people here make avocado sweet smoothies
 with sweetened condensed milk.
 
 I also like key limes, but your ability to allow them to totally ripen
 on the tree is where the magic happens.  I am jealous.  I also have 
 kafir lime plant and use the leaves.  The Thai people here use the
 zest of the fruit, not the juice for curries, but mine has never
 produced fruit so I have to buy them frozen.
 
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, vashtirama vashtirama@ wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
  curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
  
   Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard
 here
   in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good
lemon:
   
   Meyer lemons rule!  I buy them at Whole foods whenever I see them. 
   Having them growing in your yard is the coolest thing ever.  If you
   had an avocado or Kit mango tree also I would declare you living in
   heaven.  I made some great Limoncello Liqueur with Meyer lemons.
   
  
  You are SO RIGHT about the avocado and Kit mango trees! We practically
  fast on them and add the avocado pits to smoothies.
  But about the Meyer lemons, the key limes from our tree beat them out,
  esp. if left on the tree to ripen so much that they fall off. They
  have a complex taste, about 5 tastes in one.
  We tried a Sweet Lemon tree (a Middle Eastern fruit apparently) and
  they really did taste like lemonade! Unfortunately they never
  developed any juiciness no matter what we did. It might be because
  we're in FL not Cal.; we couldn't get juicy blood oranges and
  pomegranates either.
  We also have a kaffir lime tree which we use for the leaves. It has
  never fruited so I don't know what they're like.

I haven't been able to detect the taste of the pit yet. It's supposed
to be an excellent source of soluble fiber so the smoothie is more
satisfying for longer than the usual fruity smoothie and keeps my
blood sugar level even. One pit goes into a 4-smoothie batch (blended
by a 3 horsepower K-tec). We throw it in whole because it's too hard
to cut. The blender has no trouble with it though, whereas there is
always a grit left after it blends blackberry or pomegranate seeds. On
the internet I only found 1 mention of ingesting it: it is grated and
used medicinally in Mexico. Looks like the whole tree is toxic to many
animals but when we had our pet iguanas they lunged at avocado leaves
with pure glee. An iguana whisperer suggested once that this is
because avocadoes and cinnamon are in the same family. The iguanas 
also loved leaves from our cinnamon tree.

We learned of adding the pit to smoothies at a raw foodist class
regarding using smoothies for healing. That lack of any mention on the
internet to back this up makes me wonder! Not that the internet is
authoritative about anything, but gee, I'm not going to rave about
eating avocado pits all day every day and that everybody should do it!

You can use the inner pit of the mango too, and in some countries it's
ground and used as flour, but it's too much work for me to get it out
of its casing, plus so many people have allergies to the tree around
here that I'm not eager to eat more parts of the mango. (It's in the
same family as poison ivy. Pink peppercorns, and cashews too--another
tree that's so toxic, people can die from the fumes of roasting the
cashews. Even the cashews sold as 'raw' have been heated to become
edible.)

Raw foodists make amazing things with the avocado flesh, such as
chocolate mousse!




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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-31 Thread vashtirama
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard here
 in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:
 
 Meyer lemons rule!  I buy them at Whole foods whenever I see them. 
 Having them growing in your yard is the coolest thing ever.  If you
 had an avocado or Kit mango tree also I would declare you living in
 heaven.  I made some great Limoncello Liqueur with Meyer lemons.
 

You are SO RIGHT about the avocado and Kit mango trees! We practically
fast on them and add the avocado pits to smoothies.
But about the Meyer lemons, the key limes from our tree beat them out,
esp. if left on the tree to ripen so much that they fall off. They
have a complex taste, about 5 tastes in one.
We tried a Sweet Lemon tree (a Middle Eastern fruit apparently) and
they really did taste like lemonade! Unfortunately they never
developed any juiciness no matter what we did. It might be because
we're in FL not Cal.; we couldn't get juicy blood oranges and
pomegranates either.
We also have a kaffir lime tree which we use for the leaves. It has
never fruited so I don't know what they're like.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-31 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie ltm457@ wrote:
 
  Are there any organic food distributors in fairfield?
 
 Heh. The TMO has its own organic food certification program...
 
 
 So yes, yes there are. 
 
 Vedic City ONLY sells organic food...



http://tinyurl.com/y7qkus

http://maharishivediccity.net/agriculture/index.html




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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread authfriend
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 I did not know about this. This I why I stopped eating
 apples.  They're too firm and I can't buy ripe ones
 anywhere. They don't ripen at home, eiher, and leaving
 them out for a month in the hopes they will ripen
 attracts fruit flies. Yes, I have actually left them
 out that long.
 
 It sounds like this chemical works too well.

My sister, who recently moved to Vermont, has some
old apple trees on her property that haven't been
cared for and look pretty miserable.  But she
discovered a couple of small, misshapen, but nice
red apples on one of them, picked one, and ate it.
She says it was fantastic, vastly better than any
of the commercial apples she's had in years.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool fflmod@ 
 wrote:
 
  
  I did not know about this. This I why I stopped eating
  apples.  They're too firm and I can't buy ripe ones
  anywhere. They don't ripen at home, eiher, and leaving
  them out for a month in the hopes they will ripen
  attracts fruit flies. Yes, I have actually left them
  out that long.
  
  It sounds like this chemical works too well.
 
 My sister, who recently moved to Vermont, has some
 old apple trees on her property that haven't been
 cared for and look pretty miserable.  But she
 discovered a couple of small, misshapen, but nice
 red apples on one of them, picked one, and ate it.
 She says it was fantastic, vastly better than any
 of the commercial apples she's had in years.

Yep- There is no comparison at all. Oddly enough I find the apples 
from my tree stay firm and ripen slowly, and they are organic. 
Perhaps the trees sprayed with pesticides and stuff produce a 
different kind of apple? 

Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all the 
little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially the 
clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per 
branch site, and the apples will grow much larger.




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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
snip
 Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all the 
 little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially the 
 clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per 
 branch site, and the apples will grow much larger.

Thanks, I'll tell her.  The impression I got from her,
though, is that the trees have been so neglected that
they're only producing a single apple here and there.

She's going to try to bring them back, but I'd
imagine that would take at least a few years, no?






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
snip
 Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all the 
 little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially the 
 clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per 
 branch site, and the apples will grow much larger.

Thanks, I'll tell her.  The impression I got from her,
though, is that the trees have been so neglected that
they're only producing a single apple here and there.

She's going to try to bring them back, but I'd
imagine that would take at least a few years, no?






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread Bhairitu
jim_flanegin wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
   
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool fflmod@ 
 wrote:
 
 I did not know about this. This I why I stopped eating
 apples.  They're too firm and I can't buy ripe ones
 anywhere. They don't ripen at home, eiher, and leaving
 them out for a month in the hopes they will ripen
 attracts fruit flies. Yes, I have actually left them
 out that long.

 It sounds like this chemical works too well.
   
 My sister, who recently moved to Vermont, has some
 old apple trees on her property that haven't been
 cared for and look pretty miserable.  But she
 discovered a couple of small, misshapen, but nice
 red apples on one of them, picked one, and ate it.
 She says it was fantastic, vastly better than any
 of the commercial apples she's had in years.

 
 Yep- There is no comparison at all. Oddly enough I find the apples 
 from my tree stay firm and ripen slowly, and they are organic. 
 Perhaps the trees sprayed with pesticides and stuff produce a 
 different kind of apple? 

 Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all the 
 little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially the 
 clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per 
 branch site, and the apples will grow much larger.
Which *is* a lot of work and probably fine for someone who has no 
hobbies or other interests.  I didn't get many apples this year due to 
the weird spring weather which messed up a lot of crops in the area.  
Commercial growers use a spray that thins and indeed apples as well as 
strawberries are one of the most heavily sprayed fruits.   Keeping the 
worms out of them is indeed another challenge.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 jim_flanegin wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ 
  wrote:

  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool fflmod@ 
  wrote:
  
  I did not know about this. This I why I stopped eating
  apples.  They're too firm and I can't buy ripe ones
  anywhere. They don't ripen at home, eiher, and leaving
  them out for a month in the hopes they will ripen
  attracts fruit flies. Yes, I have actually left them
  out that long.
 
  It sounds like this chemical works too well.

  My sister, who recently moved to Vermont, has some
  old apple trees on her property that haven't been
  cared for and look pretty miserable.  But she
  discovered a couple of small, misshapen, but nice
  red apples on one of them, picked one, and ate it.
  She says it was fantastic, vastly better than any
  of the commercial apples she's had in years.
 
  
  Yep- There is no comparison at all. Oddly enough I find the 
apples 
  from my tree stay firm and ripen slowly, and they are organic. 
  Perhaps the trees sprayed with pesticides and stuff produce a 
  different kind of apple? 
 
  Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all 
the 
  little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially 
the 
  clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per 
  branch site, and the apples will grow much larger.
 Which *is* a lot of work and probably fine for someone who has no 
 hobbies or other interests. 

lol! I think it took me a grand *total* of 45 minutes the three 
times I did it...I should've mentioned my tree is about 8 feet wide 
and 10 feet high.

 I didn't get many apples this year due to 
 the weird spring weather which messed up a lot of crops in the 
area.  
 Commercial growers use a spray that thins and indeed apples as 
well as 
 strawberries are one of the most heavily sprayed fruits.   Keeping 
the 
 worms out of them is indeed another challenge.






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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread Bhairitu
jim_flanegin wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
 jim_flanegin wrote:
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ 
 wrote:
   
   
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool fflmod@ 
 wrote:
 
 
 I did not know about this. This I why I stopped eating
 apples.  They're too firm and I can't buy ripe ones
 anywhere. They don't ripen at home, eiher, and leaving
 them out for a month in the hopes they will ripen
 attracts fruit flies. Yes, I have actually left them
 out that long.

 It sounds like this chemical works too well.
   
   
 My sister, who recently moved to Vermont, has some
 old apple trees on her property that haven't been
 cared for and look pretty miserable.  But she
 discovered a couple of small, misshapen, but nice
 red apples on one of them, picked one, and ate it.
 She says it was fantastic, vastly better than any
 of the commercial apples she's had in years.

 
 
 Yep- There is no comparison at all. Oddly enough I find the 
   
 apples 
   
 from my tree stay firm and ripen slowly, and they are organic. 
 Perhaps the trees sprayed with pesticides and stuff produce a 
 different kind of apple? 

 Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all 
   
 the 
   
 little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially 
   
 the 
   
 clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per 
 branch site, and the apples will grow much larger.
   
 Which *is* a lot of work and probably fine for someone who has no 
 hobbies or other interests. 
 

 lol! I think it took me a grand *total* of 45 minutes the three 
 times I did it...I should've mentioned my tree is about 8 feet wide 
 and 10 feet high.

   
That's about 40 minutes too long for me. :)

Of course my apples are green apples and really only good for making 
pies.  When I get a good crop I give them away to relatives.   But they 
don't give me any pies back, damn!

The neighbors across the street have a pear tree that goes to waste.  
And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are too sour 
for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them.

  I didn't get many apples this year due to 
   
 the weird spring weather which messed up a lot of crops in the 
 
 area.  
   
 Commercial growers use a spray that thins and indeed apples as 
 
 well as 
   
 strawberries are one of the most heavily sprayed fruits.   Keeping 
 
 the 
   
 worms out of them is indeed another challenge.

 




   



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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ 
 wrote:
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  Judy, you may want to tell your sister that next year when all the 
  little apples come out on the tree to thin them out, especially the 
  clusters of two, three and four. Thin them down to one apple per 
  branch site, and the apples will grow much larger.
 
 Thanks, I'll tell her.  The impression I got from her,
 though, is that the trees have been so neglected that
 they're only producing a single apple here and there.
 
 She's going to try to bring them back, but I'd
 imagine that would take at least a few years, no?


If a tree is too far gone, better to plant a new one. They have a finite 
life-span and it can be 
shortened by abuse/neglect.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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Of course my apples are green apples and really only good for making 
 pies.  When I get a good crop I give them away to relatives.   But 
they 
 don't give me any pies back, damn!

I get ~200 Fujis per year- and the neighbors get most of them!
 
 The neighbors across the street have a pear tree that goes to 
waste.  
 And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are too 
sour 
 for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them.

Yep- I'm guessing 500 lemons a year from my tree.

Check this out- its easy!

Lemonade

Combine 2 cups water + 2 cups sugar in a pyrex bowl or a saucepan, 
either nuke for four minutes (bowl) or stir over stove (saucepan)
until all sugar dissolves into 'simple syrup'.

Juice enough lemons for 2 cups of juice.

Fill a one gallon pitcher about 1/3 full of ice cubes.

Pour the simple syrup over the ice cubes. Stir until the liquid is 
cold (this cooling of the syrup prevents destroying the vitamin C in 
the lemon juice)

Fill the gallon picher the rest of the way with the lemon juice and 
water, stirring 50-100 times.

I drink a lot of lemonade fresh off the tree this way! 
Also 'invented' a 'Tequila Moonrise' with 2 shots good tequila, dash 
of bitters, and lemonade. Awesome refreshment!






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are too sour 
 for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them.
 


Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard here 
in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lemon




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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are too 
sour 
  for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them.
  
 
 
 Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard 
here 
 in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lemon


I prefer limes because they don't seem as strong as lemons.

Plus they are prettier.




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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are too 
sour 
  for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them.
  
 
 
 Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard 
here 
 in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lemon

Meyer is the way to go, though you are right about the 1 and 1/2 
thorns!




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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread Bhairitu
bob_brigante wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
 And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are too sour 
 for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them.

 


 Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard here 
 in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lemon
The lemon and apple tree came with the house.  The apple tree actually 
did not bear fruit until a couple years after I moved in.  The tree is a 
Meyer lemon.  I'm too pitta to use them much (other than in cooking) and 
also being pitta the lemonade would screw up the sugar metabolism.  It's 
just better to give them away.  The lemon tree also requires little care 
other than the pruning the gardener does.






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread curtisdeltablues
Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard here
in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:

Meyer lemons rule!  I buy them at Whole foods whenever I see them. 
Having them growing in your yard is the coolest thing ever.  If you
had an avocado or Kit mango tree also I would declare you living in
heaven.  I made some great Limoncello Liqueur with Meyer lemons.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are too sour 
  for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them.
  
 
 
 Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard here 
 in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good lemon:
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lemon






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[FairfieldLife] Re: Better living through chemistry

2006-10-30 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard 
here
 in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good 
lemon:
 
 Meyer lemons rule!  I buy them at Whole foods whenever I see them. 
 Having them growing in your yard is the coolest thing ever.  If you
 had an avocado or Kit mango tree also I would declare you living in
 heaven.  I made some great Limoncello Liqueur with Meyer lemons.
 
 

Avocados grow well here, but they require so much water, it's cheaper 
to buy them -- they're usually only 50-75 cents each now, since 
Mexican avocados are now allowed in the country (47 states now, and 
all states in 2007) http://tinyurl.com/ycwdmw


 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ 
wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
   And I have a lemon tree that is very prolific and lemons are 
too sour 
   for me hence friends and relatives get big bags of them.
   
  
  
  Try planting Meyer lemons -- not as sour. I've got one in my yard 
here 
  in So Cal, and apart from the dastardly thorns, they're a good 
lemon:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lemon
 






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