Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

Do they grow as one stalk or do they shoot up more canes? Wife got a Chicago fig

 

Not canes really, but more like branches from crown/central stump.

 

I understand, so it will kinda bush out more

 

Do you have a good pic of how much space it will take up?

 

Figs are kinda optional. You can train them as bushes or small trees. Fig tree, fig bush. I will post some new photos soon!~

 

3-5 feet diameter and tallest now over 5-6 feet

 

Thanks for pics! Neat looking plant/tree

 

All three of mine are different

 

They must produce a lot fruut from each plant.

 

Well that’s the sad part

It takes some years. The other two have not had fruit yet. In my mind it seems like they will never have fruit but it can take 4-5 years

Some need the wasp for fertility

 

My wife keeps flowers, berries, and tomatoes in our terrace garden. I’ll share more this season….this one opened up this week.

 

I dont know if you know but just in case you dont. If you cut the head off the roses when petals start falling off it will pop another bloom, eventually...a week or so.

 

Appreciate that. We have a lot to learn. I’m back reading the thread and finding all sorts of good stuff!

 

https://www.figboss.com/post/fig-tree-wasp

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/natu...relationship-between-the-fig-and-the-fig-wasp

 

My 12 year old Brown Turkey Tree.


Be carefull how close you plant them. They grow. And grow. This tree has been trimmed twice in its life. Both times a 1/3 of it was cut out.
My truck for size comparison.

 

You cannot give too much lime to a fig. More lime means more fruit. I had a gravel pile next to it when it was a baby. It started growing like crazy. We found fig roots among the gravel as we scooped it. Tree sensed the lime and grew roots in that direction.

Apply pelletized lime in the fall and spring. Rake the mulch, sprinkle lime, rake mulch back.

First day of picking off that tree (1st pick is the largest). Bowls have lemon juice water, to clean them. Figs are NOT floating.


We get 20-25 bowls in one season.
If you pick figs daily, or at least every other day, they never overipen and birds and deer do not get them. In our case it works out to be 5 bowls 1st time around, and then 3 weeks of almost daily green bowl.

PS a large batch like this is perfect for canning. Worth pulling the canning supplies out. If figs are ripe you do not need to add any sugar, just use a low sugar pectin.

 

+1 on lime

limit the N fertilizer though - figs are not heavy nitrogen growers and if too much, all leaves and weak branches that can’t handle cold

mine like lime, sand amendments to the soil, P (phosphorus fertilizer like flower bloom kind) and just a little K ( potassium) scratch it all in as Barsroom says

 

Adding lime tonight.

 

Kids picked blueberries and plums tonight. Ran out of time before rain came.
Large berries are the Titan variety out of UGA.