Saturday, January 21, 2012
oranges anyone?
We harvested our oranges yesterday, all of them were picked off the tree. I couldn't even guess how many we picked but it was in the hundreds. Our neighbors had a garage sale this morning which made for extra traffic in our culdesac so we put some bins filled with oranges out in front of our house with a sign saying "free oranges" and all of them were taken. We still have about 50 oranges left. We are not huge orange fans, but we will figure something out- most likely some fresh squeezed orange juice. Our grapefruits aren't doing so well, hopefully they will be ripe in the next month or they will go bad come spring. Camden LOVES grapefruit so he is anxiously waiting.
I should have taken a before picture, but this is the tree after we picked the oranges. We trimmed it up and gave it a nice cut! Mrs. Grapefruit Tree is next, she is way overdue for a trimming. I'll make sure to do a pre-picking photo shoot with her.
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I have a grapefruit, a lemon and a tangelo tree. The tangelos are always so sour you can't eat them. I don't like grapefruit, so they all go to waste. I do use quite a few lemons, but most of them go to the dump, too.
When I was back in Kentucky last month, my friends were drooling over the fact that I have citrus that goes to waste. They pay so much for it. I could never bring myself to pay for a lemon anymore.
Oh oranges, how I love thee. So I was told this week that you can put them in the freezer and then when you want an orange take it out the morning before and set in the frig. They say they are sweeter even. I'm running a experiment right now. I'll let ya know.
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