Having to skirt round yet another anti-lockdown protest during our most recent walk, and waking to the news that one in thirty Londoners has the virus and London NHS hospitals are two weeks from being overwhelmed, we have decided to keep off the streets until we are vaccinated. That means retreating to our terrace for exercise as we did in March last year.
I must admit, the prospect filled me with dread – not being able to stretch one’s legs properly and having no wildlife to enjoy – that is until I looked at our lemon tree for the first time since the Summer.
“The writer” is more cheerful pounding up and down our small, empty space than he has been lately walking gingerly in the park and so much of our time at the moment is spent glued to CNN and the goings on in the U.S., exercise anywhere is the last thing on our minds, as we sit, aghast, in front of the TV.
All I need now is a recipe for what to do with unripe lemons, as there are masses on the tree that I assume won’t get enough light to ripen. If anyone has a (polite) suggestion, please add it to the comment box.
Locked down in London 
You could make lemon curd if you have enough lemons. If not juice them and freeze the juice in ice cube trays for summer cold drinks. Try and find a recipe that doesn’t involve the mixer or peeler.
Also tree looks like it needs a feed as the leaves have yellow spots. Give it a citrus food containing Nitrogen to help it.
For anything else contact Gorden Ramsey!!!
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Passed your query onto my gardening guru friend who has successfully grown lemons in her garden and greenhouse for years and she has replied
” I would keep the unripened fruit on the bush as it will ripen eventually, just takes a while. Then make lemon curd! I put some fleece over my citrus when the weather is really grim.”
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