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When life hands you a lemon you can certainly do much more than just make lemonade. This versatile fruit is an amazing source of wonders – before today, I never realized just how much a person could do with lemons. Oh how poor our lives would be without them. For ideas on how to use LEMONS for hearth and home go to Lemons for Hearth and Home If you would like to add to, expand or offer other ideas on matters lemon, please do – it would be great to hear from you. How do you use lemons in your life? Cheers now!
Lestie Mulholland Container Gardening Editor
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Lestie, there's a problem with the link to the article. I've had a look at it and you just need to insert a : after http .
Now I shall read the article. I do like lemons.
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Hi there Everyone, Oops - I did not check my links and thanks for the tip off Mona, Here we go again ... Lemons for Hearth and Home Cheers again!
Lestie Mulholland Container Gardening Editor
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Oh Dear People - I don't know why this particular link is not working!
Please be patient and go to the website to read the article and in the meantime I will try to sort it out.
Ta ever so...
Lestie Mulholland Container Gardening Editor
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Hmm. I can't see what's gone wrong on the second attempt at a link.
But I've tested this link: Lemons for Hearth and Home
The article is worth a read. I think I need a lemon tree. Though I can't think where I'd put it if I had one.
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Thanks for this Mona, the link story is a mystery but with your help now people can access the info readily.
I think I may have said this before but my Mom was an avid rosarian and though she had a garden of other flowers and plants, all kinds of roses filled up every space possible.
When at a nursery with her one day she saw another rose that she didn't have (Limelight) and wanted to buy it. Exasperated, I asked where she was gong to put it and she promptly answered "On my head!"
Well, needless to say we found a space in her garden but to this day I use her saying for anything appropriate - "On my head!"
Smiling at the memory, thanks ...
Lestie Mulholland Container Gardening Editor
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I liked the story about The Mom and the Rose.
I doubt that a lemon tree would like our garden. Steeply sloping, poor soil, in Wales, and the sheltered places (small patio, side of house) get very little light. Friends in California have lemon trees. Lemons like it there. Sigh.
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The other evening I put potatoes in a steamer basket in a saucepan. As I managed to turn the heat up, instead of down - couldn't actually see the gas burner with the pan in place - when I returned . . . . the potatoes were done! And I hadn't set the kitchen on fire! But the water had boiled away and the pan was blackened inside.
I used washing-up liquid and a plastic scourer and a LOT of elbow grease. This helped, but didn't really complete the job. Now I have to note that this was not my pan, but I lodge with someone else some of the time. So I felt that I had to make it right.
Well, inspired by recent discussion on your forum, I got out a half lemon and I gave the remains of the black a "scrub" with it. Thought I had nothing to lose. And it worked. I won't say it was as good as new, because it wasn't that good to start with it. But I got the black colour off and it was as good as it was before I started cooking.
So three cheers for lemons! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
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Hi Mona,
So pleased to read this ... I have had similar adventures with potatoes and I know all about it.
Just by the way, I am making good progress with cleaning a large copper bowl that has been encrusted with dried Brasso (metal cleaner) for some twenty years - so there is a lot of elbow grease there too, but there is no ways I would have been as successful as I have been so far without the lemon juice - it certainly does work on brass and copper too.
Cheers
Lestie Mulholland Container Gardening Editor
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