Well…you just have to go ahead and pick them. Then you share the lemon love with friends and neighbours and make delicious dishes like Lemon Rice, Chicken with Za’atar and Lemon or even Lemon and Chili Mussels.
We planted our little tree just over 7 years ago, not long after moving into our Cortijo, or home in the country. Initially we despaired of ever getting a single lemon from it as, despite the fairly temperate climate all year round, we often get strong winds. Our tiny tree grew but the winds stripped the flowers (which were to be our lemons) and even the leaves from it. Getting 2 puppies a year later who loved to dig also added to the stress for our little tree.
But, all good things come to those who wait. Just look at it now! We’ve been away for 2 months, and at the end of October it was bare of lemons as we’d given some away and picked the rest to take back to England. It seems our “Limonero Lunero” (a lemon tree which flowers every new moon so that you have lemons all year round) thrives on neglect. It’s been a very dry year, we haven’t been around much, and now it’s groaning with lemons.
There are still plenty to be picked, but I made a start. Maybe we’ll have Lemon Ravioli this week…
Chica Andaluza 
Amazing! I’m so jealous 🙂
Will have to pop a few lemons in with the oil for you 🙂
Wow – thanks so much!
Oh, how I would love to get my hands on some of those lemons. We use lemon a lot and I’ve always wanted a tree, but we don’t have the climate for it or enough sun. Lovely tree!
I remember my grandmother nurturing a little lemon tree in England when I was young. I don’t think it ever got so far as producing fruit and one autumn she didn’t bring it inside before the first frost and that was it. I couldn’t understand then why she was so upset…of course, now I do!
Someone gave me a little lemon tree seedling last year and in spite of my best efforts, it stayed exactly the same size until it died. 😦 But, maybe some day I’ll have one! Meanwhile I will fantasize that it will look like yours!
I think when we bought the young tree it was already several years old – we had a head start!
Oh I MISS having fresh lemons – Lucky you are – and such wonderful recipes .. c
Glad you liked the lemons and the recipes!
Lemon curd! And drizzle cake. Could you preserve some in salt like they use in middle eastern cooking? Can you tell I’m ridiculously jealous of that harvest?
Oh yes, especially with all the eggs I have right now, lemon curd would be perfect 🙂 And who can resist lemon drizzle cake!
Not me. Although I am enjoying a very Enid Blyton seed cake at present. But then I don’t have lots of lemons!
Seed cake – how wonderful! Haven’t had that for years J
Glad you didn’t give up hope
Well…you taught me not to!
Wow! I shall look for that varietal here and hope the wind doesn’t take all the flowers 😀
Fingers crossed for you!
Oh wow! Look at those lovely lemons. The view of that lemon tree is massively different to the dreary one outside my window! 🙂
I hear the weather has been a bit bleak this weekend in England L Think we may well be driving back through snow in France in about a week!
Very envious, indeed. I can never have enough lemons in my kitchen…I’m always using them in cakes, tarts, stuffed in a roast chicken, zest grated for something or other…love lemons:)
You’ll never be uninspired for a meal with a lemon in the house!
Yes, lemon curd, preserved, sliced and frozen, lemon meringue pie, sussex pond pudding, dried rings and used for pot pourri, juiced and frozen in ice cubes, loads to do with lemons!!
Brilliant suggestions Lynn – am just hunting out a large jar to preserve some J
Trying my hardest to get lemon trees to grow here. Apparently we are “Mediterranean” but this year I am swapping that to desert! Loving the fecundity of your lemon there Ms Chica. Go forth and make curd 🙂
Love that word fecundity – makes me feel like a goddess!
I love that word also and you are a glorious minx of a woman who we all adore 🙂
J
All of those lemons off of one tree? Unbelievable. I’m glad you linked us back to your lemon ravioli recipe. I need to make that dish! I can hear my Grandpa hollerin’ somewhere. He had a small, container lemon tree that he carried indoors and out, depending upon the weather. He finally collected a single lemon from it but you would have thought it a Faberge egg.
This was what my granny did too – hers was also a lemon tree (shrub!) but she never got as far as growing a fruit from it. Thinking of a lemon as a faberge egg really made me smile 🙂
This is just stunning. I’d make some lemon curd too for pancakes. I love that life is bringing you lemons and olives these days. Abundance for sure 🙂
We’re very lucky indeed!
What a lovely welcome home 🙂 🙂
I think the lemons waited for us 🙂
like lemon ??
nice,…
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Now that is a wonderful crop of lemons. I’ve thought about planting one in our backyard but there is a disease that has been killing citrus here so I might wait until next year.
Sounds like a sensible idea!
wow
can have this lemon???
Hmmmm ……. fresh taste and a lot of vitamin C, it’s great for your health.
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I am so jealous of your beautiful yard and your lemon tree.
We’re very lucky indeed ☺
PS. Have a good trip!
I need to ignore my tree I think ….. Hmmm.
Yes…treat it mean!
more easy is it to plant lemon trees than others? 🙂
You need a mild climate and plenty of patience!
Wow Amazing ! Fresh Lemon have a lot of Vitamin C, it is good for your skin and health.
how wonderful .. more heathly with lemon…
healthy with lemon, fresh taste and a lot of Vitamin C. Lemon Tea is very delicious
my favourite fruit.. healthly.. http://www.grosir-bros.com
all seems pretty fresh, I really like lemon
fresh taste once and that was one of my favorite fruit.
wow fresh lemon! hmmmm so tasty!
i have read this twice, i love the very fresh lemon..
the fruit is very much beneficial, because it contains many vitamins, especially vitamin c.