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]

have you not got any space to plant your own?

[just_me_karen]

Haha best idea, Joz.

Cat you should trade with your neighbour, that's the fairest way and it's what I do. Trade him something you grow, or make with the lemons.



Also, lemons don't fruit all year so a weekly gift wouldn't be possible.

[cat_mioux]

Ummm. No. I'm renting.

And I want lemons this week. Not next year.

You are so not getting a green tick. 

[the_bob_delusion]

Most people with a lemon tree have more than they need, most are happy to give to anyone who actually wants it. It's just it's an effort to ask who actually wants it. 

I have more than I need. It's just too much effort to pick them. 

I'm happy to drop the lemons somewhere for you to pick up if you really want them. I have enough for my tequilas. 

[cat_mioux]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
Haha best idea, Joz.

Cat you should trade with your neighbour, that's the fairest way and it's what I do. Trade him something you grow, or make with the lemons.



Also, lemons don't fruit all year so a weekly gift wouldn't be possible.

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I was going to offer him figs as a trade off.

Just one little technical problem though. The figs belong to my other neighbour but the tree hangs over my fence. He did say I could pick them though.

[just_me_karen]

You could plant the lemon and if you move, the next person benefits? I've left heaps of lemon trees in my wake. I always name my lemon trees after people I don't like 😄

[joz*garage]

karen ive got what they call a meyer lemon tree, i transplanted it from another property

           once established, they perform quite well

[cat_mioux]

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

Most people with a lemon tree have more than they need, most are happy to give to anyone who actually wants it. It's just it's an effort to ask who actually wants it. 

I have more than I need. It's just too much effort to pick them. 

I'm happy to drop the lemons somewhere for you to pick up if you really want them. I have enough for my tequilas. 

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That's what I think too bob. Anyone with a lemon tree would be happy to give some away. All he needs to do is drop a couple over the fence.

That's nice of you to offer your surplus lemons. Maybe I could invent a long arm attachment to reach those lemons that are almost on my side of the fence but out of reach.

Thinking ... thinking ...

[***super_nova***]

I have a lovely little lemon tree, but it fruits only 2x a year;  when it does I take bags to the op-shop and they sell them for 20c each.  When I do not have any, other people do, and our op-shop usually sells them, so I then buy some for 20c 🙂

But some trees do fruit all year ; we used to have one in another place and we were never without lemons.  The nasty people next door have one like that,  and their huge tree is always covered, as is the ground, and they just let them rot there.  😞  Once long time ago I asked if I can have one and they said they do not have any, and then went and cut the tree back such a way that it was at least a yard from my fence.  LOL