lemon, lime & envy

I hate to admit it, but I'm suffering from serious envy. Is it something I should be worried about... probably not... But every time I walk out our back door it hits me in the face (not the door, just the envy!). Our neighbours have the most heavily laden lemon tree I've seen in a long time, and after 3 years of carefully nurturing our own lemon and lime trees, saving them so many times from the destroying paws of Buckley, watering them through the long dry summers and blitzing the leaf miner attacks, what have we got to show for it?

One solitary fruit on each tree.

Yes that's right, 1 lemon and 1 lime. That's after 3 years nurturing people!! So now the challenge is to work out how we're going to use our precious bounty!

Our lonely lime

If I could drink at the moment we could always crack open some coronas, but that is not an option, and with the average price of a lime being around $2 this little one is very precious!

One lovely lemon

I suppose I should be glad that our neighbours are very generous and so far we've been gifted with bags of lemons (and mandarins). And to be perfectly honest I wouldn't know what to do with as many lemons as they have, I guess I'd just like to have more to show after 3 years!