My neighbour has a lemon tree!

[cat_mioux]

I need those lemons.

I noticed when I walked along my driveway a squished lemon was on the concrete and I'd just bought lemons at the supermarket today because I like a dash of lemon in sparkling water. But lemons are $1.20 each!

I looked over his fence and he has a lemon tree hidden by my tree. I climbed up the garden wall as far as I could get but I can't reach them. **bleep** it.

Soooo ... do you think a nice handwritten note 'if you have any spare I'd love a few lemons every week' popped into his letterbox would be ok? We only know each other by saying hello 'neighbour' in passing. I'm way too shy to knock on his door. He's a nice elderly gentleman. A couple of times he's jump started my car last winter but only because he was out the front in his garden and noticed I had a flat battery.

I'm a little wary of getting too friendly with my neighbours, retired Greeks. Last time I got friendly with one he wanted to take me off to  Greece for a naughty holiday. Fingers down the throat *arggghhh*. The other retired Greek guy on the other side knocked on my door last year and wanted to come in. He started trying to muscle his way in through the front door. I firmly said no and shut it. Nowadays he behaves and when he see's me he passes me pomegranites over the fence.

But I want lemons! This neighbour is lovely but I'm still wary.

How do I get these lemons? Does "I want your lemons" mean "come in for coffee sometimes *wink*"?

[joz*garage]

crikey i agree with you, i think its petty to pick anything off from your neighbours plants without asking 

i mean, how hard is it to ask anyway> lol

back when i had a rose garden the old chap next door had the common decency to ask me for rose petals first for a funeral he was attending.

no problem

but

i wouldve found it strange if i hadve caught him picking without asking

[i-once-was-bump]

Just ask your neighbour, my mother has a lemon tree that never seems to stop fruiting (Eureka) and we have to preserve them in salt and we have to squeeze them then put the juice in ice cube trays and when frozen put the cubes in plastic boxes in the freezer and then we have to store them in sand in a box and my mother gives away about a hundred to those who ask.

You might be saving your neighbour's adult children a whole lot of trouble if you take a lot of lemons from him.

As for stealing fruit from a neighbour, there was a very savage murder in Sydney over stolen mangos a few years ago.

[i-need-a-martini · Accepted solution]

Youll have to buy yourself one of these:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/350411808078

[i-need-a-martini]

I knick my neighbours lemons all the time. Lift the kids over the fence and they grab them for me as I need them.

And my other neighbours passionfruits. Although they are on the boundary fence so they are sort of mine.

[joz*garage]

I knick my neighbours lemons all the time. Lift the kids over the fence and they grab them for me as I need them.

what a great role model

[imastawka]

(Sorry. joz,  I'm really not stalking you}

My lemon tree doesn't stop.   I bag 'em up and go around the neighbourhood and hang

'em off the gate.   What they do with them is their problem.   But I get rid of excess that way.

I do get stuff done for me in return though - nature strip mown, that sort of thing.

But I thought the law said anything hanging over your fence from a neighbouring property, if it

was pruned or trimmed back on your side it has to be returned to the neighbour.  It's their property.

And that means the fruit as well.

Crikey's all lawyered-up, she'll let us know, for sure 

[cat_mioux]

Ok I've decided not to buy a lemon tree (who has a spare $170??!).

I'm not going to dig one up. Can you imagine me turning up with a shovel and a pick axe? Anyway, I accidently dropped my spade in the deep end of the pool. I don't own a pick axe and I aint buying one from Bunnings.

I won't knick his lemons, don't want to be breaking the law.

I won't be making him lemon butter or anzac biscuits. I work full time and have part time job. I'm time poor.

I won't write a note.

I'll speak to him when I see him out the front and just ask if he has a couple of spare lemons to pass them over when he thinks of it.

Problem solved

[imastawka]

(You could always buy that plastic bottle of lemon juice from the supermarket)  lol

[twinkles**stars]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

I knick my neighbours lemons all the time. Lift the kids over the fence and they grab them for me as I need them.

And my other neighbours passionfruits. Although they are on the boundary fence so they are sort of mine.

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Firstly you lift you teenage children? Wow, how strong are you!

Secondly, that's stealing:(

[twinkles**stars]

$170 for a lemon tree?????? My grandies gave me mine for my birthday ($24)....training it to grow along the fence so it wont take up too much room.