Coming from here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/865057/#new
Hopefully the edibles are coming along. Seems they are based on the recent photos! Harvesting should be in full swing soon!
Edibles - '08 - Part 2
Great blueberry picture! The wild yeast adds a lot of interest. Bet it would make a good starter for soughdough.
Sweet Pickle Peppers were slow to take hold but are starting to get some near mature size fruit on them:
Christmas beans. They'll fill and be ready to pick in November. With an average of two or three beans per pod, they are a treat. The upside is you need a steak knife to eat one they are so big. Okay, that's a Texas size lie.
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Heucheras and Friends: This forum is too quiet...Need some action
Wow. if heucheras are slow, what about the rest of the site.
I guess everybody is out in the garden!
Christmas beans . . .never run across them MaypopLaurel. Sounds good for next year.
Gloria...dog days of summer I guess. Everyone will be huddled in here talking about spring bulb sales sooner than we think (or would like)
sofonisba . . .here is the grow bag/earthbox, unmowed lawn area I was hiding in the eggplant photo on the last edibles thread:
spring bulb sales. there are fall bulb sales going on now.
Yummmmmmmmmmm those bluberries look delish!! They are in full swing around here that is for sure! There are parked cars along all the highways around here and you just know people are blueberry picking! It is awesome! I think I will go out one morning and pick myself a basket too!
My blacks are starting now. I'll take a photo when they ripen a bit.
Yum!
looking good Sherrie!
Does any one have Saturn peaches?
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/2006-10-01/Top-10-Reasons-to-Try-a-Donut-Peach.aspx
I have one.
Do you like it? I might try one. Anyone grow figs in a container??
It grew a lot this year - 2 nd year and set like crazy. I knocked almost all the fruit off - but what I left didn't make it. It got a little peach leaf curl so I am going to have to spray it. We had a tree like this when I was a little girl - it is nostalgia for me.
I had a fig in a container for 4 years. It made figs in the house. I kicked it outside last Fall and it is doing fine and setting little figs! It is a Chicago Hardy so I don't have to wrap it during the winter.
I think that's the fig I have. So you will leave the container outside and not warp it or move it to a sheltered area or anything?? Why did you remove the majority of the peach fruits? Because it's still young?
I'm starting to pick my favorite early tomatoes. Burbee's '4th of July' a little bigger than golf balls.
Andy P
Happy 4th!
Those look good Andy!!
Anyone recognize this lovely flower?
Hint:
If it blooms you've waited to long to pick it.
Broccoli?
Victor - yup, I knocked off the fruit because it was too young. I planted the fig in the ground las Fall. It died down to about 18" but it is bushy and I saw at least on fig setting. I planted it in a corner where the porch meets the house. We saw a large Chicago Hardy at Logees that they just mulched for winter and they are zone 5!
That could be a number of veggies. (A gross response would be your nose.)
Nope not broccoli
So do you think I should I plant it in the ground, Cat?
Good Grief Victor....
Sorry! How about another hint?
Sarahskeeper's...study looking tomato cage there. What do you use?
Yayyyy Sherrie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Radish?! Never would have guessed. Of course, I never grew them.
Victor - it made a great house plant, just got too big. You could pot it and then take it out in the summer and in for the winter.
You don't think it would survive in the ground?
Figs are pretty sensitive to cold. Even here they freeze back once in a while. Most people who grow them put them on the south side of the house to pick up reflected heat and get the most sun.
I read about some people in Canada who dig huge trenches and tip the figs over and leave them buried for the winter. The dig them up and set them upright again for the summer.
I think there are methods where you can wrap with burlap maybe insulated with leaves, and then make a cloche for the plant. That way it would stay outside and the roots would not be disturbed.
Thanks Gloria. I'll have to think about this. Either bring the pot inside or move it to a sheltered area perhaps and wrap it.
Eliot Coleman is the specialist for winter growing in the NE. He has lots of plans for making little portable greenhouses to grow veggies through the winter and other strategies as well. He is in Vermont/Maine so those ideas should work in N.Y.
We planted 3'-4' Brown Turkey figs in Atlanta and at the same time planted 85 miles north in a higher elevation. Five years later the Atlanta figs are twenty foot trees covered with gallons of figs. The Maypop figs are about eight feet. Part is weather related but the deer do love them.
Figs are in the 20 - 30 ft range here and they are so great to make a little grove and sit under - the leaves are very shady. Ever so wonderful if there is a ripe fig you can reach from where you are sitting!
Pixie, I would have guessed something in the Cabbage family. The pink threw me off.
David, The tomato cages are old and too short. I supplement with taller stakes and string in July. It's messy but it works.
I was pleased to see these 'Sweet 'n Early' cantaloupe from Burpee doing so well. They are small and plentiful. I tried them a few years ago and loved them.
Andy P
Victor - I have my fig planted in the ground now.
AYC:What do you do over the winter to protect the fig?
I just put a wire ring full of leaves about 6" high around it. It did die off at the top - about 2 feet of it. But it came back shorter and stronger late in the Spring. It is on a south facing wall and near the vent of my furnace where warm air comes out all year. The one I saw at Logees was about 5' high and I think they said that they didn't do anything special like wrapping or burying it during the winter.
