Lemon is a citrus plant of Rutaceae, also known as lemon fruit, foreign lemon and beneficial mother fruit. Small tree with prickly branches, dark purple leaves and flower buds, thick papery leaves, oval or oval fruit, thick and rough peel, lemon yellow, and very sour juice.

Lemon tastes very sour, and pregnant women with liver deficiency like to eat it most, so it is called beneficial mother fruit or beneficial mother and child. Lemon is rich in citric acid, and its fruit juice is fleshy and crisp, with a strong aroma. Because it tastes sour, it can only be used as a superior seasoning to prepare drinks, dishes, cosmetics and medicines. In addition, lemon is rich in vitamin C, which can relieve phlegm and cough, promote fluid production and strengthen the stomach. For bronchitis, whooping cough, loss of appetite, vitamin deficiency, heatstroke and polydipsia, it is the bane of scurvy.

Lemon is warm, shade-tolerant, not cold-resistant, and also afraid of heat, so it is suitable for cultivation in subtropical areas with warm winter and cool summer. Lemons are suitable for planting in warm gentle slopes with deep soil layers and good drainage. Lemon plants grow faster, with a height of 3-6 meters, which requires a large amount of fertilizer. They shoot, bloom and bear fruit many times a year.

In p>27, when my rooftop garden was just built, I went to the flower farm to buy some common garden trees, such as osmanthus fragrans, frangipani and magnolia grandiflora. At that time, I bought a small lemon tree next to the gentleman's flower. The gentleman was a climbing shrub, and the sunshine on the rooftop made the gentleman grow rapidly, and soon it grew into a green shed, covering the lemons next to it.

Junzi flowers are coarse and grow rapidly, which is often used for road greening in Guangdong.

Lemons planted for a period of time have no results. I asked an uncle who specializes in growing lemons by himself in the market. He said that lemons need more fertilizer, and imported Norwegian compound fertilizer was used. With his secret recipe, my lemons began to grow wildly. Because they could not be pruned, their branches grew wildly, occupying many places on the rooftop, and some branches still extended out of the rooftop. From time to time, check that there are no fruits hanging outside, so as not to fall down and hurt people when a typhoon hits.

In a blink of an eye, my lemon tree has been planted for 12 years. The seasons in Guangdong are warm, and lemons blossom and bear fruit every day. Except for a few fruits in winter, there are tens of thousands of lemons every year. They bear too many fruits, and they are too lazy to pick them up on the ground and in the flower beds to turn them into flower fertilizer. Lemons have simply become my sweet burden. In order to digest them, I can't pay attention to all kinds of lemons and give full play to their uses.

Lemon trees are blooming every day, and there are many little bees around the rooftop.

A flower is almost a fruit.

Small lemon fruits that keep growing.

Green fruits are sometimes silly and can't be seen clearly, and they are thought to be green leaves.

Heavy fruits hang down and fall to the ground, so we should support them with

lemon branches sticking out of the rooftop wall

yellow-green fruits.

When making moxa, lemon leaves are brought to the bottom to prevent sticking, which makes moxa more fragrant.

Sliced lemon is soaked in water, boiled lemon fish, pickled fish, Dai lemon chicken, lemon chicken feet and lemon duck.

soak in lemonade

Dai lemon chicken

lemon fish

lemon chicken feet

use lemon duck stewed with salted lemon

lemon juice to make cakes, use lemon juice as sushi vinegar, make sushi rolls, make sauce when eating salmon, sashimi and boiled shrimp, and make jam;

Cake sent by lemon juice

Cranberry Cake with lemon juice

Lemon dander is scraped out and added to the cake, so as to relieve the fragrance

Stewed lemon cream with rock sugar, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm

Soak the whole lemon in lemon vinegar

Make salted lemon, put it in the refrigerator and car to smell, and put it on the pillow to help sleep;

Salted lemons, eaten in Guangxi, are very appetizing. For example, Guangdong Jiuzhi Chenpi

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Salted lemons

use lemon juice as vinegar, together with baking soda, as a cleaner to clean the kitchen and stove at home.

The quality of tap water in Guangdong is poor, and it is easy for kettle and thermos to scale. Cut a lemon and boil a kettle for one night every week, and the scale will be completely dissolved the next day. The kettle has its own fragrance of lemon.

The year before last, I bought a Taiwan Province lime tree online, which was itchy. Last year, it began to bear a small amount of fruit, and the lime peel was thin and juicy, and it was seedless, but the yield was low.

Taiwan Province lime is thin-skinned, juicy, seedless and has a high face value.

I accidentally saw Australian blood lemon saplings for sale on the Internet this year, and my hands itch again. It seems that the poison of lemon has penetrated into my bone marrow.