We have wild lemons growing in our yard and they are real bitter, are they safe to eat?
I tried google searching poisonous citrus, toxic citrus, and bitter lemon. I could not find anything that was unsafe for humans... not safe for pets, yes... At my house... I have a number of trifoliate oranges ( Poncirus trifoliata ) And while I wouldn't want to eat them as oranges... they make good orange-ade, and are fine in other prepared dishes... I recently started seeds from one of those hardy lemon trees... The lemons were the size of softballs, and made excellent lemonade.
How long do lemons take to grow?
Inside, maybe never. You may not have enough light for long enough in the day. In a greenhouse situation where sun is "direct" from sunrise to sunset, yeah you'll get lemons. Indoors where the window receives a few hours at best, not enough. Seed grown lemons take at least 7 years to bear and often longer. Also they do not breed true, that is they are more likely to resemble the wild lemon than the variety you took the seeds from. The reason is most lemons are hybrids. You are right, most trees are grafted, that is the selection is grafted onto a vigorous understock with perhaps a secondary dwarfing graft as well. maybe if you summer the fruit outside you might get results, but realize they fruit ripens in late winter, your indoor conditions may not be strong enough to carry the plant and fruit from the time it is brought in to when the fruit is ripe.
I have wild onions growing in my lawn....how do I get rid of them???
No, a weed -n- feed product will not work on onion. The herbicide needs to stay or stick onto the stalks of the onion for a certain length of time to be effective. A granular product will not accomplish this. There is a remedy to rid your turf of wild onion as well as wild garlic. If you opt to try and handpull them, they will more than likely break off at ground level and this would be a useless cause. I would not recommend it. If you try to dig them up, you will make shambles of your lawn and wild onion and garlic have many bulbis roots. This would be a very time consuming proposition to say the least. My recomendation would be to use a "selective" herbicide. Onion and garlic are very diffucult to control in the landscape, but with the right herbicide, it can be a safe and productive venture. In order to control this weed, you will need to use a product with 2,4-D as its main ingredient. One of the most effective on the over-the counter market is a concentrate made by "Ortho" called appropriately, Ortho Weed B Gone "Max". You can use it on your turf and as long as you don't have St. Augustine grass, it will not do any harm to the grass. Mix the concentrate in a handheld or backpack sprayer at the rate of 2oz. of concentrate per every 1 gal. of water. 2,4-D is one of the only products that will cut the surface of the "waxy" onion blade and enter the cell structure, working its way to the bulb and roots, killing it systemically. Below is a link in PDF format, with the product label for you to read. The label will tell you what types of turf you can use this product on. Weed B Gone Max kills over 250 different weeds and two of them are the onion and garlic. Make sure that if you do use this product, it isn't going to rain for atleast a day after the application. You may be able to pick this up at Walmart, Home Depot, or a Lowes garden center. Hope this answers your question. Good Luck! http://www.hardwarestore.com/media/pdf-m... **Billy Ray**
I have a wild lemon tree in my back yard. but the lemons aren't very good. anything i can do?
These are called wild lemons and the thorns are horrible! Cutting one back can prove to be very painful as each limb has dozens of very long and sharp thorns. They really are no good for eating or cooking. I live in Northwest Florida and as a child child I remember my grandmother digging out the pulp to make lemon juice. There is barely a teaspoon of juice in one of them and the peel is very bitter and they are packed with seeds which, by the way will come up and grow without any encouragement whatsoever! The only thing I have found the trees any good for is to plant along my property line to discourage trespassers.
Can you eat the dandelions that grow in your yard?
Yes, here is a great salad using them Dandelion Salad "This is a very good use of all those annoying dandelions growing in your yard. INGREDIENTS: 1/2 pound torn dandelion greens 1/2 red onion, chopped 2 tomatoes, chopped 1/2 teaspoon dried basil salt and pepper to taste --------------------------------------... DIRECTIONS: In a medium bowl, toss together dandelion greens, red onion, and tomatoes. Season with basil, salt, and pepper. Use dressing of your choice
How do you make a lemon tree grow from its bare seed?
Basically, you just plant a very fresh seed any time of year in potting soil, keep the soil slightly moist and in a relatively warm place. Lemon trees need lots of sun. We have had the best luck with seed from organic lemons from the grocery store. If you find a seed that has already sprouted inside the fruit , plant thet one. The fruit probably will not be identical to the parent fruit, (you don't know who the "father" lemon was) But don't worry about the fruit being "no good" unless you are trying to make a living growing lemons. Most lemon trees start flowering when they are just a few years old. and the flowers are lovely. It's best to have more than one tree and cross polinate the flowers using a dry paint brush.
Starting lemon trees from seeds?
Yes, the new tree would probably produce lemons. First of all in order for the seeds to germinate they need to be at the ripe or ready stage when you extracted them from the fruit. However, it is worth a try to plant all the seeds to see if and how many germinate. Whether or not they would taste as good or look as good as lemons from your parent tree is another question and answer. Most of the lemon trees available on the market are cultivars (cultivated varieties). The only way they "come true" is by taking cuttings from the flowering and fruiting plants, and rooting them Here are some examples from Monrovia Nurseries: 1) IMPROVED MEYER LEMON, 2) DWARF LISBON LEMON, 3) EUREKA LEMON, 4) PINK VARIEGATED EUREKA LEMON. For a lot of in-depth information about growing lemons as well as other citrus plants see Botany.com
Why did we create lemons? Lemons were the result of selective breeding between bitter oranges and citrons. Why would we create a fruit that, for most, is too sour to eat directly?
Taste.I guess the same could be said for why we grow herbs - the majority of herbs have no use outside of adding to the taste of something. Also, what’s more marvellous is how people first started making bread. It’s a very complicated process, involving a number of seemingly inedible ingredients. But the end product is what makes it worth it.The bottom line is that people will do anything. From wine to cheese, people will eat anything in any way. For another example, take how humans cultivated corn from a barely edible weed to what it is today.But why would humans make such a sour and bitter fruit? Well, maybe humans didn't make it, nature did. I’m no expert, but maybe cross-pollination occurred? Or maybe some random guy did it by accident.So lemon trees were born. Humans noticed them and since their fruit looked tasty, they picked and ate them. Most of them promptly spat the fruit out, but there was one person who was a culinary mastermind, they went like “Hey, what if I used this fruit with that fish that I can never cook right?” and discovered the wonderful tastes of lemons! The thing about lemons is that they’re not just sour and bitte, they’re also zesty and have a wide range of culinary uses. See the below excerpt of Wikipedia.Lemon juice, rind, and zest are used in a wide variety of foods and drinks. Lemon juice is used to make lemonade, soft drinks, and cocktails. It is used in marinades for fish, where its acid neutralizes amines in fish by converting them into nonvolatile ammonium salts, and meat, where the acid partially hydrolyzes tough collagen fibers, tenderizing the meat, but the low pH denatures the proteins, causing them to dry out when cooked.It was only a matter of time before people discovered how to use lemons. Which, if you think about it, is quite likely how it happened, considering the vast and unfathomable number of humans to have lived, each having a mind like your own. The usage of lemons soon exploded.The citron’s fruit had barely any pulp, and bitter orange was an appetite suppressant. But lemons had way more uses so people cultivated lemons instead of the citron or bitter orange that lemons came from. Since lemons contain a high amount of Vitamin C, the people who consumed lemons were less likely to get scurvy, therefore more likely to pass their lemon-eating habits to future generations.And, honestly, it was for the better.Disclaimer: the above is simply a hypothesis. I am no expert so regard it simply as my personal opinion.
If life gave you lemons, what would you do with them?
There are some people who made lemonade. — MainstreamThere are some who squirted the lemon juice in life's eye. — ChaoticSome threw the lemons in the trashcan while life wasn't looking. — Passive AggressiveSome genetically modified the lemons to asexually reproduce through severance/regeneration, so that they have more lemons. — ScientistSome simply give the lemons back to life, and demand for equal rights with the person that life gave vodka to. — ActivistSome simply look at the lemons and ponder the meaning of life. — PhilosopherThere are some who make Coca-Cola out of the lemons, and nobody knows how they did it. — HipsterThere are some who sell the lemons and generate a small amount of revenue. — EntrepreneurThere are some who ask life, “What's a lemon?” — IgnorantSome are upset that life assumed their gender, and that giving specifically lemons to them is an offensive assumption of their gender, and that their gender should never be assumed. — TumblrSome receive a BNBR for violating the Lemon Possession Policy, and are banned permanently. — Popular QuoranThere are some who give the lemons to a promising lemon-growing startup. — InvestorSome make a dramatic soap opera of the event of life giving them lemons, and cast Dwayne Johnson as the lead role to further promote the movie at the box office. — FilmmakerThere are some who turned the lemons into a meme, and gained internet fame within weeks. — Know Your MemeSome dropped the lemons. — ClumsyThere are some who take several selfies with the lemon just to get the perfect photo angle. — InstagrammerAnd me?I set the lemons aside, putting them right next to the stack of pending unfinished homework, and wrote a Quora answer about the lemons. — Frozen Calculator™
Vegetables: Is broccoli that is turning yellow safe to eat?
The broccoli that you see in the grocery is actually the buns of the broccoli flower that will open be pollinated and produce seeds. When the broccoli begins to turn from green to a yellow color several things are going on simultaneously. The flowers are attempting to take the next step and blossom, but they are also being deprived of the normal flow of nutrients and moisture and are inadequately removing it from the stems and leaves, they are wilting. Barring mold spots or areas of obvious decay. The florettes are not dangerous to eat, but their flavor has probably altered somewhat. Broccoli freezes very well so if you're not going to be able to consume your entire purchase, chop it up into your normal cooking size put it in a plastic bag loosely with plenty of room and freeze it. . The distinct bitterness that makes broccoli unpalatable to many people is a genetic trait of their ability to his taste certain bitter flavor. Not all of us taste broccoli the same way. My favorite recipe is to toss it in brown butter with olive oil, capers, parsley, salt, pepper and if you like spices, peppers. Brian Curll