So what did you promise yourself you would do this year.......
And did not do that was fig related. I promised myself I would catalog the figs with pictures, both leaves and fruit. I almost hate to admit it but out of 300 ish varieties in ground I think I did 3 Just not enough hours in the day.........
Cutting sales will start Tuesday Nov 1 at 9:00 eastern
I was going to summer prune my Hardy Chicago early to get more early figs. Didn't get to it until July so I have a lot of small green figs and few ripe ones.
The problem with one tree is you have nothing to compare it to. Oh, and then you have to go outside of the flavor group to compare those. But don't forget to get an early, middle, and late season variety. And then....
Yeah, now it's "stop after I get one of each variety that reaches above a certain threshold of interest level." That's at least ten more on my list. Who's up for a trade this winter?!
I said I was going to expand my garden space so I could have more space for figs. Hopefully I'll have the time to do that before the ground freezes this year so I don't have to do it in the spring.
The plan is for to have two 3 x 25 foot garden beds where i 'plant' my potted figs 3-6 inches in the ground.
All that's left is to get rid of 2 more potted fig trees and mulch my beds. Got all the figs I can handle planted at the new house so I got things going my way now. I got a Scott's Black and Imp Celeste I'm gonna let go. There too big to ship so gonna either sell them on Craig's list or give them to family so I can still have access to them.
My fig project for the year was to get rid of the fig ghetto area in the backyard, and I did. Gophers did help unfortunately, with some eating right through the bottoms of the plastic pots.
I was able to up-pot most of my figs into 15 gallon containers and move them into one main area. There is a second area in the side yard with about a dozen figs in 15 gallon pots, and this winter, after more culling, those will be moved into the main area into the front yard. Most of these will go into the ground. Because of the drought, I was able to fashion 'saucers' of sorts for under all my figs.
I wonder how many of us end up with a "temporary" fig ghetto while we're getting our plans together. My fig ghetto is a convenient holding area where I stage the figs during the spring shuffle, but usually don't completely clear during the year. Hopefully won't end up on next years list of things I meant to do too.
I promised myself that I would get rid of a bunch of trees this year. I did get rid of a bunch, but not nearly enough. Going to be a pain putting them away again tomorrow. There's always next year.
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