Which Lemon and Mandarin?

 Hello Aussie garden gurus.  Can someone recommend the most prolific fruiting
Lemon and Mandarin for a small suburban backyard garden in the Hawkesbury
region of  NSW.
I don't want to select the wrong one to take up space.  ..and I'm scpeptical
about nurseries after all they will advise and sell what they have.
Cheers, TIA

 G'day

If you want to use the lemons to make cheesecakes, then do NOT get a
Meyer as the acid content is too low to thicken the condensed milk.
OTH, Meyer is sweeter so might suit you for other purposes.

Mandarin......Murcott is my favourite, it's sweet with good sized fruit.

Hope this helps?
Bronwyn ;-)

Potaroo wrote:

 We are a bit further North in the Hunter and have a Eureka lemon that
despite getting constantly wind burnt or frost bitten, and being  on 1.5m
high constantly produces more lemons than we can cope with.    From memory
its the Eurekas that fruit constantly whereas the Meyers tend to crop all at
once - depends on what you need I guess.

I agree with your comments on Nurseries, I reckon its almost criminal to
still be selling Tomato, Corn and Capsicum seedlings around here - without a
warning that you need a hot house to get them to ripen now.  I feel sorry
for the new gardeners heading to a nursery thinking that whatever is around
(especially seedlings) is OK to plant now - or that plants in the Nursery
are actually suited to the local environment.

Geoff

 Dead right Geoff they are still selling a few around here out of season.
Eureka looks like it might be the goer then as I use lemons in  my cooking
for justa bout everything.  If for example I need to water my cooking down,
i ude a bit of lemon, or orange juice or other juice thats around.  I was
hoping that Bronwyn might have advised of cropping.  (Are you reading Bron,
like to know love, cheers)

Thanks Geoff. (and Bronwyn)



Hawkesbury

 G'day

Eureka is a good cropper.....it's just that I 'used' to make lots of
cheesecakes and living at that time in a high frost area, a Meyer was
recommended.  But then I discovered the juice won't thicken the
condensed milk used in the filling.  Meyer is sweeter due to it's low
acid content.  Can't really comment on it's cropping behaviour as I
moved to the coast and the new house had a Eureka.

At the moment I don't have a lemon tree but planning to get one...or
maybe even a lime??  Then again I'm in a frost free area now.  Not sure
if this helps?

Bronwyn ;-)


Potaroo wrote: