Thread: What's in your garden?

Originally Posted by Maanaam

I have some kaffir lime trees in the yard somewhere and also trying to get a plain lime tree to grow as I don't think my missus uses lemon much but that might be because we don't have them at hand.

We have 2 types of the Kaffir lime trees. We have the one variety that does not have thorns. We have another that has thorns that are damn near 2" long and are stiff and could be used as a weapon. They both bear fruit that is never is used (Albeit I cut them and toss in the bathroom for a nice smell). My wife does however use 3 or 4 leaves from time to time in various dishes.

We have 5 regular old lime trees. My FIL grafted them from the large one we have but they produce very few limes and small. I recently bought 2 lemon trees and 1 has a lemon already.

Originally Posted by ootai

The other thing I hate here is the bloody red ants and they seem to invade every tree no matter what it is. I went to pick a couple of limes the other day and got attacked. One bite is no problem but lots of bites bloody hurt.

AHHHHHH Yes...Mot Dang (Red Ants). Brutal bastards. Relentless. I just trimmed my Lumyai trees way back and they assaulted all of us. Bite is annoying and feels like your getting a shot. Thank god no venom. Our trees had 3 BIG nests. My FIL cut each one off into a bag and took the eggs and gave them to his neighbor lady friend. From my wife she has never eaten bugs and my FIL says the same. I have zero need to try and won't.

Originally Posted by ootai

The family try to reduce the numbers by raiding the nests to get the eggs to eat but I think that just makes the ants angrier.

Actually that does work and if you do it enough they will look elsewhere to nest up but they still will raid your yard. They are an important part of the eco system for pollinating trees here along with the bees. The good thing is they do not enter houses. They really do not want to be bothered.

JPPR2
The quote below was from me not Maanaam.

Originally Posted by Maanaam
I have some kaffir lime trees in the yard somewhere and also trying to get a plain lime tree to grow as I don't think my missus uses lemon much but that might be because we don't have them at hand.

As for that prickly bush (the last picture in your last post) we have several of them here. In post#6 I had a picture of one of them (see below) and if you have a look it is much more "eaten" down than yours. My Missus goes and picks off the young leaves as soon as there are a few grown back.


I also see that you have some dragon fruit cactus growing (in the picture of the lemon) have you had any fruit from them yet? That is one thing I do like eating.
I also found out today that we have some custard apple trees growing at the back of the old house. My sister in law was getting some of them down for my MIL and I seen her so I asked what she was doing and that's when I found out we had them. Learn something new everyday if you want to

Cheers