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  Posted by Pete-Free (U7363826) on Friday, 27th January 2012

  Has anyone got direct experience of growing a lemon tree in UK? A friend has one and isn't sure how to look after it well enough to get fruit, if that is possible. At present it is in a pot placed in a sheltered spot, wrapped in fleece in a Yorkshire garden. Should it be fed and if so what with and when.
  
  Any advice based on personal experience would be very welcome.
  
  

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  Posted by Goldilocks (U2169760) on Friday, 27th January 2012

  Never grown them, though I understand they are NOT frost hardy., so you are taking a big risk leaving it outside, even with fleece. February is expected to be really cold!!
  
  There are often postings on this board about how to keep them over winter indoors without them shedding leaves. It all sounds very tricky to me, maintaining some warmth, plenty of light, careful control of watering, looking out for scale insects etc., so hopefully someone come forward to give you the advice you need. Good luck!

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  Posted by Kleftiwallah (U13700999) on Friday, 27th January 2012

  The memsahib has one as a present from her brother. Three lemons on it when it arrived and now three more. It lives in a semi heated conservatory, it is fed occasionally with citrus feed. Thats all I know I'm afraid. Cheers, Tony.

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  Posted by Martine (U15033945) on Saturday, 28th January 2012

  I live in France but the conditions are rather similar with this freaky weather.
  Ours was bought ten years ago, and lives happily in a pot. It is thriving and does produce lemons. It sometimes sheds all its leaves but they soon come back.
  
  It is fairly hardy (it will resist survive minus 5°), but it might be best to move it indoors for the worst of the winter. It lives in an unheated greenhouse from mid November until end of March. Last indoors and first outdoors. As with all citrus trees, it doesn't like being waterlogged when there is a frost
  It doesn't really need feeding, though perhaps we should feed it more often.
  
  Best of luck to your friend, but it will probably be less bother than other plants...

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  Posted by Pete-Free (U7363826) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  Many thanks Goldilocks, Kleftiwallah and Martine for your replies. Much appreciated. The advice for my friend will be very helpful. I hope she manages to rear her lemon tree with blossom and fruit in due course but it will be a gamble under the conditions and location as it is at present I fear.

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  Posted by jored1315 (U15121668) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  Has anyone got direct experience of growing a lemon tree in UK? A friend has one and isn't sure how to look after it well enough to get fruit, if that is possible. At present it is in a pot placed in a sheltered spot, wrapped in fleece in a Yorkshire garden. Should it be fed and if so what with and when.
  
  Any advice based on personal experience would be very welcome.
  
  Ìý Hi I have a lemon tree but in Spain, however the weather is very much like the UK not the sunny south!
  My tree was left out last year and wrapped in a fleece, lost all its leaves and I thought we had lost it.
  However, they cam back and this winter we took it in.
  It is flowering now and has tiny lemons on it. I am so excited.
  It does seem to like a lot of water!
  
  I am new to this and the lemon tree so I am only telling you what I have done!
  
  Has anyone got any ideas on watering while away for a couple of days?
  
  Cheers

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  Posted by nanpickle (U14258493) on Monday, 30th January 2012

  I have a couple of small orange trees - should be similar to lemons I imagine. I overwinter mine in a frost free greenhouse (heater only comes on when temp drops), top dress and put them outside around April/May - I am in Essex so probably warmer here than Yorkshire. I give them an occasional citrus feed (you can buy Winter and Summer feedI). Mine bear lots of oranges each year - not big enough to eat, but very prolific. I put them back in gh late September. Hope this helps. Nan x

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  Posted by Pete-Free (U7363826) on Tuesday, 7th February 2012

  Thank you for your replies nanpickle and jored. All helpful info for my friend. Let's hope the lemon tree survives the winter and the snow and icy conditions at the weekend..

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