Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 08 May 2012 22:59:02 -0400, Jean B. wrote:
>
>> Cool. Someday, I need to trek to Lowell, Mass. again. Lots of SE
>> Asians live there, so one can find unusual things. Oh, BTW, I
>> found kaffir limes at a non-Asian place a few months ago. I had
>> only seen ONE in a store MANY years ago and one on my tree (which
>> some animal stole). That reminds me. I need a new tree. A
>> friend killed off the last one, which I had farmed out for the
>> winter because I lacked a nice sunny place for it.
>
> I tried to kill mine this winter. I picked off the rest of the leaves
> (which were falling off anyway) and put those in teh freezer in
> ziplocks. And then it spent 2-3 weeks below 38F. I just looked at it
> tonight and damned if it isn't better looking than it was at the end
> of last summer - all sorts of new growth. But the limbs where I picked
> off the leaves are still bare except on the end where there new
> growth. I'll snap a picture when it's daylight to show funny looking
> it is.

Poor thing. But then one morale of the story seems to be that one
shouldn't hesitate to use the leaves (mumbling: which I have been
known to do).

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Jean B.