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Old 02-23-2021, 11:17 PM
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We get about 15lbs of humongous Meyer lemons from our back yard neighbor's 2 trees 2x a year. His 2 trees could probably stock Publix with their crop for a few days. Can't speak for vermin or other animals but haven't seen any arround here but I don't think our location has many to begin with, just lots of geckos/anoles & lovebugs. He does NOTHING to them, they just grow and produce lemons 2x a year of which some weigh almost a pound and you can eat them like oranges without too much puckering. He also has a LIME tree which doesn't do well. We planted 1 Valencia orange tree (could never do that in NJ) when we moved in 3 years ago and this year have our first "crop." Well, 4. They don't taste so great though but they actually look like oranges! Maybe next year. Right now there are hundreds of blossoms on it. Def no rats but we do have a friendly BAT in our patio umbrella but not sure if s/he likes oranges.

Our first harvest!

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