Harvesting in the Winter

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imp

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We planted this orange tree about a foot high while building our house outside Phoenix. After a few years, it looked like this come December! We ate oranges and drank juice until it was coming out of our ears! Quite an experience for these former Midwesterners, where Decembers are decidedly much different. Note that the Bermuda grass all around has browned-out for winter. It needs fairly high temperatures to remain green. imp

 

You are so lucky to have that tree. Oranges ripe on the tree are so good. My uncle in Florida lived next to an abandoned orange orchard and I would come back from Christmas with a car load. But they weren't as pretty as yours. I assumed the ones in the stores had been colored.
 

NancyNGA said:
You are so lucky to have that tree. Oranges ripe on the tree are so good. My uncle in Florida lived next to an abandoned orange orchard and I would come back from Christmas with a car load. But they weren't as pretty as yours. I assumed the ones in the stores had been colored.
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Nan, outside a Coco's Restaurant near our first house in Phoenix, there were planted a large number of orange trees, simply covered with fruit. Given the large numbers of folks coming and going, we wondered why they had not been "grahsped" off the trees by customers, so glommed a bagful for ourselves.

UGH, UGH! Their taste was more acrid than lemons! Later we heard these were "ornamental orange" trees, but this was never substantiated. Deb made marmalade out of them which was scrumptious, of course full of sugar. Ya CAN'T win! imp
 
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