http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2974076/Keith-Richards-loves-growing-lemons.html
I cant get enough... citrus action
By PETE SAMSON, US Editor
Published: 15 May 2010
VETERAN rocker KEITH RICHARDS has swapped vodka... for LEMONS.
The ROLLING STONES guitarist has grown a tree after planting pips from a lemon he bought in a supermarket.
Now, he told a US TV chat show, it has produced citrus fruit "bigger than grapefruits".
Fruit ... he germinated it by hand
And the former wildman - who gave up his favourite tipple vodka when he quit booze at the start of the year - even GERMINATED the tree's flowers by hand.
Keef told chat show host JIMMY FALLON: "Somebody told me that in the winter, when the flowers come up, you've got to germinate them.
"So I end up with a little paintbrush, going round every flower. I wanted JOHN BELUSHI's bee outfit."
He explained: "I had nothing else to do - so what do you do when you've got nothing to do?"
Keef, 66, revealed his lemon passion when he made a surprise appearance on Fallon's show promoting the re-release of Stones album Exile On Main Street.
But the axeman - famous for the riff on 1960s hit (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - admitted his playing was "rusty" these days.
He said: "At the moment I'm doing a lot of catch-up."
p.samson@the-sun.co.uk
Keith Richards ... grew his tree from pips 
