Lemon tree

Growing it

Plant a packet of Lemon tree in a pot in an empty bed. It takes 12 h of real time to the first picking, while you cook and while the app is closed. Water it once per growth stage to bring it on (each can is worth 8% of its growing time); a sack of compost brings it on by 50%. Nothing ever wilts.

It is picked 3 times before the bed is free again, flowering in between for 6 h.

What it gives

• Lemon & sugar: 30 portions a picking, before mastery and ornaments. Home-grown, it costs the till nothing, adds 0,30 € to the tip, and is on the menu for the day whenever your shelf holds some that morning, even before its card is bought.

• Lemon curd: about 15 portions a picking, made in the pan. Free stock for the shelf, but only on the menu once its own card is bought.

Buying the seed

It goes on sale once you have picked 2 harvests in all. The crate has 1 packet a day, at 5,50 € each. An everyday packet is only sold once the market has delivered the fruit it grows (or the pantry had it from the start).

Mamie Hortense leaves a lemon tree in a pot at the gate when the yard opens.

Madame Odette leaves a lemon tree in a pot at the gate after 10 harvests.