Lesson in lemons from the cabinet maker

We went with Silvia and her daughter Olivia to a falegnameria, a carpentry, or cabinet maker works, Olivia needing to order a cabinet made.



where, outside, we found some citrus trees in the crowded yard of the workshop

A lemon in a large pot, multiple non-grafted trunks at 70 degrees outward,
supported by tall stakes and circles of fencing wire.
The carpenter knew exactly when this was planted, when his wife pregnant 27 years ago.
Here a lesson in layering.

What had caught my eye was this interesting approach to 'layering' — 

a plastic 600ml sized soft drink bottle around a branch, 

the bark of the branch had been gently cut with four cuts along the length, slightly lifted by tiny pieces of wood, enclosed in the bottle, bottle filled with soil, bottle wrapped against light, 

all supported by a stake, kept watered for two or three months, any time from spring, 

roots developed in that time, ready for planting.