Luscious lemons, tangy tangerines, awesome oranges – all so delicious and all so overlooked in the garden. We think they deserve a place, not only for their deliciousness, but also for their health benefits and the little-known fact that they can indeed also be grown no matter your climate!
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In this week’s episode, Ben starts his own citrus collection and pays a visit to a rather marvellous citrus expert Dr Shahnaz Camatchee to take a deep-dive into all things zingy and zesty…
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Gosh fascinating, thank you! I didn’t realise I could grow citrus here, I’ll give it a go. Years ago we had a budgie, we bought him a citrus tree to sit in. He ate it…😂
Wonderful garden and fruit, like the idea of fish water for fertiliser 😊
Absolutely fascinating 🤔
I've so many citrus's growing right now! I've had a lot of fun with those this year! 🙂
Fantastic stuff Ben, love citrus.
This was great! I live in Florida (lots and lots of citrus!) and have just started adding citrus to my yard this year. I want them all! Can’t wait to try adding leaves to rice. I haven’t heard of that.
Howdy, Ben! Great video! Beautiful knowledgeable garden lady!😃
My lemon is ripening right now…Central Texas, zone 8b.
Absolutely brilliant!! Ben just took us all on a little journey to see the doctor!!
💛🍋😍
Thanks Ben. 👏👏👏
And Dr Shahnaz is so right. Last year i had the flu, in which obviously attacked my immune system.
Luckily…I found a lemon tree during my travels. After a wonderful conversation, the owner agreed that i could take as many as i wished, and as often as i needed for free.
There were many visits to the tree, resulting in me creating a lemon and fresh garlic mix in the large cup ninja blender 3×per day…
Using at least 3 to 4 100% fresh of the tree lemons, with an added tablespoon of organic greens powder, in which also included the robust nutrients of broccoli powder and cool water to top it up the rest of the way.
That's a whole lot of lemons.
But it worked!! 👩⚕️🍋🥦🌱🧄💧
After about three weeks of this self prescribed experimental medication, i was on top of the world!! And my immune system was far stronger than ever before.
Edit: Like noting the part where The Tardis takes a little tumble…
But most definitely gets back up again…Of sorts. And then go go go!! …On with life and all that.
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https://youtu.be/dQECnHNFD_E?si=g3Ay1NqXfbM4_6Ql
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I did however, return gifted the owner with an unexpected, yet fair cash payment at the end of my experience.
Also consumed a lot of fresh mushrooms + speciality yummy crunchy dry~slow~low temperature baked mushrooms for extra nutrition in which included the natural happy sunshine Vitamin D2. 🌞
It's now a dream of mine to own a wonderfull lemon tree…Or lots of lemon trees!!
Thanks again Ben. A wonderfull reminder. 🤗
I will not give up on my dream become reality.
💤💤💤😴…🍋🌞🙂.
Wow Did I ever learn from this video. I'll be starting a lemon! Thank you Ben!!
Quiero un limonero…😂.
El ambiente en mi casa está perturbado…no me animo a probar por temor a fracasar nuevamente. El ecocidio es lo que debemos detener primero.
Been growing a few lemons from seeds I planted 3 years ago. No flowers or fruit yet but the trees are getting lovely and tall and I will use the occasional lower leaves for scent and flavour.
I think you should look into growing sea berries. They're grown on a shrub that can survive down to -40F (dunno what that is in Celsius) and the berries themselves are citrus like.
I am scared that my citrus trees will die in the winter like my Meyer lemon did. So I am bringing them inside fully and not putting them in the garage.
I started two mandarin trees from seed this past winter. Crazy I also use aquarium water on occasion
I have a Meyers lemon that I started from seed and it's growing well. I live in a cold region.
I grew lemons before. They start themselves in compost and Gardens. I never noticed them on the first year. But by the second year, they caught my eye!
I managed to have it in the house about 2 years. I loves the scent in the room! The leaves emit the Oils in warm rooms and warm sunshine.
Thanks for the video, very good info. I have a lemon in a big pot because it wont survive -15 at winter but this year I got barely no lemon at all maybe only 1 for a year. and the tree is really big there is some problem I don't know what, maybe because I didn't feed it at all and the soil is exhausted. I have a question if you can answer me, I have a pot with basil in my apartment (no backyard) I think something is happening with it and it wont grow it stays the same no new growth and lower leafs starting to get yellowish. What can be the reason? in the same time at my house I have basil also but planted on the ground and there already flowering and seeds growing. The plants were the same time sawed.
Unfortunately I have found that grasshoppers devour citrus leaves. Two summers in a row now they have demolished my potted citrus trees even though I keep them up high on a porch too. The trees survive but take all year to start looking decent again…and then they get eaten again.
Here is Melbourne, Australia we have to deal with the Citrus Gall Wasp. They've killed all my baby lemon trees, so the last one I've grown in a pot indoors and it's still surviving.
Dr. Shahnaz and I have the same idea to grow so many different kinds of citrus trees that you can harvest something fresh every day. However, I've only got about 10 in my collection now. Still, it's a doable plan!
Good morning Ben, it is as always so inspirational to listen to your garden talk, and today is quite exceptional visiting with Dr. Shahnaz. It was good advice listening to her talk about her caring for the various citrus trees and of course making use of the leaves for your teas and adding flavour to your cooking. Plants for sure are great stress relievers, much easier to get along with in nature than stressful citizens. Good organic advice re the Castile soap for mealie bugs. I am sure your cutting will take and will grow well. It was a most pleasant video, thank you Ben
Your tumnalls are so goood
Thank you for this video, those citrus plants are amazing.
I already have four citrus plants – they've not really been doing very much but with the tips from this video perhaps I can help to revitalise them. Thank you.
I would love to be able to grow citrus but unfortunately, I feel our climate in the foothills of the Pennines in Yorkshire is probably a step too far. I do have a Hungarian twisted lemon, which is, in fact, deciduous but grows exceedingly slowly and I have had no fruit or even flowers yet. It can stay outside as it gets cold in Hungary in the winter.
What a fantastic episode, thanks so much for this. I'm from Rhode Island so in the northeast part of the states, I am in a zone 6b so a shorter cooler climate. I bought my first lemon tree this along and soon I will bring it indoors to my basement grow tent. I installed lots of light and fans to move the air around. I also use a fish fertilizer and have wonderful results. I'm told it will be two years before I receive and fruits, so any other tips would be wonderful to keep my tree alive and healthy. I grew up in Florida, so my goal is if I have successful lemons I will try for the strain of orange I had in my backyard as a child.
Thank you Mr Ben : )
Brilliant. Want to have a go at Kumquat now! Thank you both.
ive got a few different types of citrus, key limes, finger limes, blood limes and blood oranges. the key lime is probably my favourite. i keep them all indoors on window sills and move them into a tent under led grow lights. i dont agree with that lady that says they can take -5c, i left a meyer lemon in a greenhouse during uk winter and it lost all leaves and stems were dying back until i brought it indoors.
biggest problems with them are root rot from staying too wet at the bottom of plastic pots and having too much coco coir in the compost which gives deficiencies.
Great video! I loved learning about growing citrus from you and the citrus expert, Dr. Camatchee! I will probably begin with a lemon tree because I'll even be a beginner with container gardening. I've got one houseplant thriving, so am getting better! I think the water meter would help me not to neglect, that and now being retired. The fish potion is genius, but I didn't do so well with fish either… 😂 but I want to try again. I may have to work up to this whole citrus thing. I was wondering if limes are about as easy as lemons. I understand from this video that oranges are at least a level up from lemons, but I'm unclear about limes.
Great content. Now I'm tempted to put my lemon and yuzu into my very small greenhouse with a frost guard heater this winter instead of bringing them indoors. Especially the yuzu is quite a prickly hazard to have in the living room 😉
I've been using fish poo water on my garden for years, the rhubarb especially loves it. Basically a high nitrate feed.
this was lovely and very informative. Thank you, I really enjoyed it!
Great video — such a knowledgeable and articulate guest. A real master class. I have been thinking about buying a Meyer lemon and now I will know a lot more about how to grow it. NY Zone 7 but with some very sunny windows which is where the citrus will go in the winter.
i have thre baby lemon trees and a clemintine on the go from seed this year in the green house
This lady is a real gem.Thank u ben If you could name some temperate varieties plz
I am growing yuzu in the UK, any tips?
Cuttings are placed near the outer edge of a pot because it supposedly warms up faster than the centre warming the rooting cutting faster for longer which does actually makes sense anyhow i'm defo going with the fish thing for my citrus (i've always found fish-blood-bone amenable perhaps it was the fishy bits?), i'll also try it on some toms and chillis next spring.
Keep it up lad always informative and enjoyable.
Dr. Shahnaz not only beautifies the city but also brings a sense of relaxation and tranquility. Her work demonstrates that it's possible to integrate nature into urban life. Every space she creates helps people feel closer to nature. She is truly an inspiration for those seeking to live in harmony with their surroundings. Her efforts offer hope that we can achieve a balance between modern life and the natural world.
Fascinating. Help please? I grew my lemon tree from a seed. About 5 germinated but I've only two left. They are 3 years old. One about a metre in height looking good. However, over winter it dropped a lot of leaves. I've kept it in a conservatory and kept it on dry side. Any tips or reasons for leaf drop??? Thanks in anticipation 😊
I'm in Central Romania, very hot summers very cold winters, have I got any chance
Well, if a kumquat is okay down to minus ten, I think I could leave it outside all year round in
London!😊