Aldi lemon tree says "not for consumption" is it true?

[Jardiniere]

isnt it brilliant how old posts come up again! Lovely to think that all our ramblings and opinions and experience are useful and people find us just by googling (other search engines are available). I feel proud...

[DiggerSean]

Thanks from me also as I've just purchased a lemon tree from Aldi and didn't read the label until I got it home. It was too much of a bargain to resist and I'm glad to know that it is fit for human consumption.

[Micklemus]

Citrus from Lidle or Aldi

The Citrus trees on dwarfing rootstock from Lidle with similar at Aldi are very nice trees for the cost as these same trees would be at least double the price at either of these stores with Lidl a pound cheaper than Aldi.

When I bought a Primofiori Lemon which is the main species of Italy I researched that it is indeed an Italian family that supply citrus to Holland & then distributed to the stores. The family seen a nice bunch of folks and are absolute professionals.
I have a nice 30 years old Eureka lemon in the ground in my conservatory but it's seen the best of it's days I believe but the few fruit that come each year are certainly a novelty and they are good to eat on the fish or the odd lemon merangue pie my wife makes with them.

The many fruit that adorned the Calamondin I bought with the lemon from Lidle wa £14 each which was an absolute bargain. After two months I decided any residual chemical that may well have been on them would have dispersed due to me always foliar feeding the citrus I have. The Calamondin
with a couple of handfulls of Cumquat with the single lemon that was on the tree I bought just two months before were washed well with warm water with a bit of fairy in it & then well rinsed. It made three 1Lb jars of lovely tangy marmalade & I'm looking forward to this spring when the two green lemons
and the bunch of Calamondins are ripe to duplicate that marmalade.....

I Crete the growers there are always spraying there trees with all sorts of chemicals and you can see when they've sprayed because they hang the empty chemical bottle on a tree they've sprayed to warn anyone pinching one to beware! We've alway found that you must wash all fruit very well and it would appear that ois sufficient to not kill you -the eater.