Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

Nice!

 

Better too thick than thin.

 

ECHO the nice.

 

No. You will put it on the hot toast, it will melt.

 

Thin is ok too...just use as pancake/waffle syrup

 

Eating figs!! Elderberries was expecting zero after transplanting, loaded.

 

ill absolutely hurt myself on figs, so gooood. Started a little garden this year. Pole beans, tomatoes in haybales, and 7 rows of purple hull peas. Tomatoes and beans didnt do crap. But i cant keep up with the purple hulls. Probably made 8-10 bushels so far, they just keep growing!

 

how bout a pic of them tomatoes growing in hay bales

 

Big as truck tires! When are they ripe?

 

Good luck!

 

lol. They were adopted

the plants are just starting to come along

 

Are you on the Olympic peninsula? What variety of fig?

 

Ficus carica & yes. Acidic soil I’m afraid

 

Unknown variety hopefully Olympus. Lime and sand lime and sand lime and sand. More bloom food late winter. No nitrogen

 

Cannot give figs too much lime. Lime and lime again.

 

I heard THAT right HERE.

The only thing that I added to the recommendation here in the PNW is SAND and flowering low nitrogen food. Figs love that with their lime!

 

I've got neutral pH soil so the lime doesn't do much here. I have found when they get stuck at the hard green stage that fish emulsion helps to get them ripe! It's not too high in nitrogen but does add micro nutrients (and smells bad).

 

On the right track for sure!

Get 2-3 sacks of sand for each bush and dig it in really well with the lime. Yes other micronutrients and phosphorus make them move (cause they really are flowers) - plus we are having unusually scorching heat.

That said I have two more bushes that have produced nada. It just take a couple years, they were pretty small to start. (now huge)