Kitchen Garden Forum

I saw an advert in a recent Radio Times for lemons, oranges and limes. The lemon trees are four years old and the limes trees are expected to produce full size fruit within 10 months. This sounds a bit optomistic to me. (The lemon is 20 quid, the lime is £30.) There's not a lot of detail other than these are ideal for UK gardens.

Hmm. I'm kinda sceptical about this. I would probably grow them in our little spare room that used to be a porch. (No longer needed as a porch.) I'd planned to use that space as a kind of indoor greenhouse. It's a nice sunny room (in Scotland, ha ha) with a big window for the room's size.

What do you think? Is growing citrus trees in a British garden really feasible or is this pie in the sky and OK only if you live in Kent or something?

Thanks in advance if you can help.

It is possible Stravaig, but does come with some rules like winter protection above certain degrees, feeding, watering & noting root growth so know when to pot on. There is a world wide site that is "Growing Citrus in Containers' which might be worth a look, keeping in mind it is world wide but they will direct to any areas that have similar weather patterns etc.