Show me your garden + figs! 🤩
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BucksCountyFigs
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May I ask why the black wire mesh on top of the metal beds- is it to make the beds deeper?
TorontoJoe
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Are the short fences around the raised beds to keep a local critter from snacking? Just curious. I figure it's not bunnies since they don't climb.
That rain today has been unreal. The whole northeast got soaked! It's still coming down here. Apparently 5cm today..... and, one of my downspouts is clogged!
I was not going up a ladder in this mess to fix it.
snarfing
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They are too make them taller for cheap lol. Some bamboo stakes, chicken wire, string (to tie across to fight the outward pressure) and burlapAre the short fences around the raised beds to keep a local critter from snacking? Just curious. I figure it's not bunnies since they don't climb.
That rain today has been unreal. The whole northeast got soaked! It's still coming down here. Apparently 5cm today..... and, one of my downspouts is clogged!
snarfing
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Yup! Probably could do it to make raised beds all together tbh. Eventually the wood chips in the bed will sink down and ill ditch em
betdempster
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these have figs but I have " bumps on many more
1. alma- dropped all the breba due to aggressive pruning but main crop is already pingpong size
2 lsu gold
3. Celeste from a forum member thank you motherwise
4. Lsu Hollier
5. Dominick
6. Greek isles
7. Smith in ground still very tiny and one or two pea size figs dropped but has more
8 exquisito
9 i258
10 campaniere
11 peters honey
12 souadi
13 sweet joy
14 koura black - small but holding on
15 red Lebanese ( not belka)
16 Olympian
17 Brown turkey
18 barbellone very tiny figs
20 LSU scotts black very tiny
21 Cherry cordial dropped all initial ones now has new crop of marble size
22 nerrucio de elba- I probably spelled wrong but no time to look it up
23Gote de miel look like it has a tiny one
24 nuestro senora del Carmen
And much excitement my Portuguese unknown forum #4 has a teeny tiny fig I think.... I need another week but there are also several bumps that look like they will be figs!!!! I have conservatively another 60 varieties with no figs yet... The three I'm rooting for are galicia negra and calderona and gozo girl.
JaysfigsTx
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Wow!!! Incredible. Truly. I have 6 varieties currently fruiting. Most of my trees are still super young. They’ve loved all of this rain though. You have so many varieties!! Geez. That’s awesome.these have figs but I have " bumps on many more
1. alma- dropped all the breba due to aggressive pruning but main crop is already pingpong size
2 lsu gold
3. Celeste from a forum member thank you motherwise
4. Lsu Hollier
5. Dominick
6. Greek isles
7. Smith in ground still very tiny and one or two pea size figs dropped but has more
8 exquisito
9 i258
10 campaniere
11 peters honey
12 souadi
13 sweet joy
14 koura black - small but holding on
15 red Lebanese ( not belka)
16 Olympian
17 Brown turkey
18 barbellone very tiny figs
20 LSU scotts black very tiny
21 Cherry cordial dropped all initial ones now has new crop of marble size
22 nerrucio de elba- I probably spelled wrong but no time to look it up
23Gote de miel look like it has a tiny one
24 nuestro senora del Carmen
And much excitement my Portuguese unknown forum #4 has a teeny tiny fig I think.... I need another week but there are also several bumps that look like they will be figs!!!! I have conservatively another 60 varieties with no figs yet... The three I'm rooting for are galicia negra and calderona and gozo girl.
All my mature varieties have fruit except for Mary Lane seedless, she’s struggling. Young trees like Ondata, Smith, Campaniere, BBN, JH Adriatic, VdS, and YLN are still putting on vertical growth.
Fruiting currently but not ripe:
Margarita, Mehdi’s FF, LSU Tiger, WM#1, MBVS, Green Mich, Alma, Deanna, TX Straw, Black Manz, Vince #3, Mega Celeste.
Fruiting currently but not ripe:
Margarita, Mehdi’s FF, LSU Tiger, WM#1, MBVS, Green Mich, Alma, Deanna, TX Straw, Black Manz, Vince #3, Mega Celeste.
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betdempster
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The rain has been crazy but would be nicer if it wasn't a deluge that washes right through the pots then it gets hot with blazing sun trying to wilt them all. You are 4 hours north of me I think which makes about 4 weeks difference. I have a friend in the panhandle that really was 8 weeks behind me in temperature. All the ones with fruit are last year trees and most of them only have 4-10 figlets so it sounds like a lot but it's not that much. Except alma which has probably 200 green figs on it from marble to ping pong size. I'm making jam this year I hope!Wow!!! Incredible. Truly. I have 6 varieties currently fruiting. Most of my trees are still super young. They’ve loved all of this rain though. You have so many varieties!! Geez. That’s awesome.
betdempster
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Funny you should say that. I have 2 Mary Lane and both have issues and are doing nothing
That’s interesting, maybe it’s the variety? Or perhaps they don’t like the heat/humidity. I’m fairly close to the Gulf, wonder if that has something to do g to do with it.
betdempster
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Might be... We are usually pretty dry here but we have had a ton of rain that's made it really humid here. Usually the rain ends mid may here and it's dry all summer
JaysfigsTx
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Oh gosh where in San Antonio are you?? That’s super far. I’m just south of San Antonio
betdempster
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Far west side. I thought you were in dallas. Didn't realize you were south of me.
Southeast Figs
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The two tomatoes side by side are my moms she started from seed from a container bushy miniature tomato plant she had last year, planted in native soil mixed 1/2&1/2 with peat moss and some perlite with happy frog acid loving plant organic fertilizer. And are growing like a beast.
The raised bed looking row is a Hugelkultur row with logs buried in ground and leaves twigs and topsoil from around my oak trees, and a light sprinkle of happy frog acid loving organic fertilizer blend with mycorrhiza and stuff. All the tomatoes and sweet peppers are loving it, and the tomato that went in earlier this year got watered once over a month.
I am loving the moisture holding capacity of the buried logs. And if done well it works great.
The two pots surrounded by leaves is my living soil hill. I feed it with greens and banana peels and stuff.
The green plant on the edge of the hill is a Hellabor plant I got recently. It’s one of my new favorite types of plants I plan to grow around the property. The blooms last forever, and it’s evergreen, and small spreading slowly, at least compared to lots of other things I’ve tested. And you can get some nice cultivars for under $40.
And they do really well in shaded spaces, which I need for a large portion of my yard.
The raised bed looking row is a Hugelkultur row with logs buried in ground and leaves twigs and topsoil from around my oak trees, and a light sprinkle of happy frog acid loving organic fertilizer blend with mycorrhiza and stuff. All the tomatoes and sweet peppers are loving it, and the tomato that went in earlier this year got watered once over a month.
I am loving the moisture holding capacity of the buried logs. And if done well it works great.
The two pots surrounded by leaves is my living soil hill. I feed it with greens and banana peels and stuff.
The green plant on the edge of the hill is a Hellabor plant I got recently. It’s one of my new favorite types of plants I plan to grow around the property. The blooms last forever, and it’s evergreen, and small spreading slowly, at least compared to lots of other things I’ve tested. And you can get some nice cultivars for under $40.
And they do really well in shaded spaces, which I need for a large portion of my yard.
