FARMS: It's Time to Pick Lemons at Home

Greetings to my dear friends of @farms, after spending several days without Internet today I am back.

Today in this beautiful morning I woke up very happy because I started to collect my first fruits and to obtain my own sustainable resource, this gave me the opportunity to reduce the daily expenses in buying fruits. And the best of all is that I did it from the comfort of my home, and with techniques that allow me to obtain healthy, natural and chemical-free food.

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The cycle of life in our nature gives us the most awaited moment by a farmer, it was time for the culmination of our effort and dedication during. The time of growth and maturation of our fruits, came the time of harvest of fruits, seeds or vegetables at the time of year when they are mature. This cycle marks the end of a season or the end of the cycle of a particular fruit.

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Several months ago I captured with the camera of my cell phone the step by step of the process of cultivation of lemons, since the tree began to bloom until it began the harvesting of the fruits, which show the development of the Persian lemon over four months. In these images you can see the large number of flowers that set fruit and how they progressively fall to a few and finally visualize the amount of fruits that set.

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Today came the time to show you this procedure; but before beginning the description of the process, I want to tell you a little about the properties and benefits for our health of the consumption of this fruit, which is well known worldwide.

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The lemon is an edible citrus fruit, rich in water and fiber, is one of the favorite fruits for all at the time of sustaining a diet to lose weight and take care of health, for its high percentage of water makes it a weapon against the retention of liquids, so it is excellent to fight cellulite. In addition to being refreshing, it is rich in vitamins of groups A, B, C, EP and K, also contains high concentrations of citric acid, potassium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, and folic acid, it is great for our organism and very used mainly in the feeding. The lemon juice in condiments for soups, drinks, salads, fish dishes and hundreds of pastry desserts.

It has a spherical shape, slightly elongated, has a thick, smooth, green shell and when ripe it turns yellow, its pulp is pale yellow inside it is the juice is distributed into small vesicles that are grouped forming segments.

Most Important Properties of Lemon

It serves as an appetite stimulant.
It is an effective antiseptic.
It is excellent inflammatory in the mouth and throat, and high blood pressure.
It is an effective home remedy for the treatment of flu and colds. It fights viral infectious processes helping also to attenuate cold symptoms.
Strengthens the immune system.
It is revitalizing.
Activates calcium metabolism for bones and teeth.
Heals the hemorrhages.
It has rejuvenating action.
Help in weight loss diets.
Lemon has a powerful antioxidant effect.
It also has an astringent power at the intestinal level, which helps fight diarrhea.
Stabilizes the pH or acidity of the stomach.

Lemon Uses to Improve your Health and Beauty

In the pharmaceutical industry it is used as raw material for the manufacture of numerous medicines, and at home it can be used for numerous home remedies.
It is used to make desserts or natural drinks such as lemonade.
The slices are used as a garnish for drinks.
At home when washing the dishes we can use it to remove the fat just by adding the juice of a lemon.
Due to the acidity of its juice, it can be used to make water drinkable, adding 4 or 5 drops per glass of water, and letting it act for a few minutes.
It is used for the manufacture of stain removers, detergents, perfumes made with the oil extracted from the bark.
It is used to exfoliate your skin.
It is used to whiten the hands and nails.
It is used to deodorize the armpits.
It serves to give shine and softness to the hair and removes the grease.
It is used as a dressing for various foods and culinary specialties.

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Lemon, a Natural Deodorant

It is a natural deodorant, several years ago there were no deodorants and many people had bad odor in their armpits when sweating, which is why they had to resort to the use of lemon with baking soda, it is excellent for body care and recommended for people allergic to deodorants. It is important that you take note of this home treatment that helps a lot in keeping the armpits dry and controlling the growth of bacteria. Prepare in a small cup, add a teaspoon of baking soda with 10 drops of lemon and mix until it looks like a cream, place the prepared paste on the skin of the armpits. This neutralizes the bacterial acids responsible for the bad smell. This you can preferably apply after bathing for as long as you want.

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It's Time to Pick Lemons

The lemon tree begins to produce lemons approximately in three years from the beginning of the crop, it provides fruits throughout the year, lemon trees flowers several times a year. In four months, the harvest can be carried out, which lasts another 120 days, and in each harvest, you can obtain about 80 kgs. of fruit per plant.

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When to Harvest Lemons?

When we talk about the creole lemon, the ideal time to pick them up is when they are the size of a pinp-pong ball and they have an intense yellow color, at this point the juice content is optimal and has a good acidity. We must constantly monitor the tree since we can find lemons in different phases of growth. This phenomenon allows us to control the production of lemons at times of the year when they are scarce.

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How do I Harvest the Lemons?

Although the process is simple, we must be very careful because the lemon tree has thorns that can injure us. The process is very easy, because you only have to enter the tree and select the fruit visually by its size and separate the fruit from the tree when it has reached the required maturity, always with great caution.

It is recommended to use gloves, scissors and thick clothes that cover our arms to protect us from the tree and its thorns, have a cup to be stored the collected lemons placing them gently every time that it harvests so that they do not hit.