This is such a brilliant thing to try!!
Grow your own lemon tree…
…in an egg!!
🌱🍋🥚
INSTRUCTIONS: Germination
- Very VERY carefully take the outer ‘shell’ off at least 6 lemon pips
- Wrap them gently in kitchen roll or toilet paper
- Put in a jar
- Pour on a few tablespoons of water to wet the paper
- Put the jar in a plastic bag and keep in a shady, cool place for 10 days
- Your pips should start to sprout…..🤗
INSTRUCTIONS: Egg nursery
- Gently tap the top of an egg and remove pieces of shell
- Tip the insides out (and bake a cake?)
- Put the egg shell back in the box and repeat for the other 5 eggs
- Use a skewer to gently poke a drainage hole in the bottom of each egg
- Fill with compost and plant your sprouting pips!!
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- 1. Lemon pips
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- 2. Peel the pips
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- 3. Germinate
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- 4. After 10 days
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- 5. Plant sprouted pips
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- 6. Planted pips
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- 7. The lemon egg nursery
There’s a great video on Youtube of a Greek man doing this. It’s such a satisfying thing to do and requires patience and a steady hand!!!
