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I finished picking the brebas from the Hardy Chicago because a squirrel seems to have discovered them and ate 3/4 of the biggest, ripest one. Got 5 brebas averaging 20g each.
Next up might be a Florea fig that I started as a cutting this winter. It seems like it's decided to focus its energy into ripening that one fruit instead of growing into a bigger plant. That's alright though, I have other Florea cuttings that are focusing more on vegetative growth. This way I get to see how the Floreas taste soon.
The Neverella breba is starting to ripen too. Probably gonna be the biggest fruit of all the figs so far this season, but there's only one. (still not as big as the ones I'm hoping to get next year though)
Update on the overwintered bluecrown passionflowers in Oakville (generally rated Hardiness Zone 7+).
June 5
July 8
They still haven't caught up to the cuttings I rooted in the winter and planted in containers - those are close to flowering. But maybe in late summer the in-ground ones will pull ahead thanks to a larger root system?
Maypop passionflower had its first bloom yesterday.
Squash plants (two in this photo) are getting big and starting to flower.
Some overwintered carrots. It's a bit tricky, they really do have to be very small heading into winter to avoid bolting in late spring. If they're small enough, it seems like the plant thinks that it's just going through a late spring cold snap rather than a whole winter? But these are in fact nice tasting carrots and non-woody, much bigger than my spring sown carrots at this stage.
More peas and the first green beans.
Neverella breba fig.
Olympia breba fig, a chipmunk took a couple bites out of it so I had to pick it even though it wasn't quite ripe yet. It tasted ok, but not great (the Neverella was great though).
My lab just smashed into one of my sweet pepper plants after getting excited by the neighbour's dog and knocked off all the fruits before they could ripen. Well I guess I'm roping off that part of the garden now.
Picked some mulberries - these are technically not from the garden but from the local schoolyard (also a few alpine strawberries on top).
Also decided to up-pot my peppers from 2-5 gal containers to 5-9 gal containers.
This one is a pepperoncini.
Roulette pepper
Shepherd peppers
Biggest one
Smaller one
The shepherd peppers were a bit trickier to up-pot, they seemed more fragile so several green peppers fell off while I was handling them. The pepperoncini and roulette peppers which have smaller fruit were easier to handle. The other large fruited peppers I up-potted last week weren't as fragile either though (gypsy, holy italian and chocolate cake).
I decided to up-pot the figs too. These are the 2022 plants that were in 4-5 gal containers and have since been upgraded to 10-12 gal. Although they tolerate being rootbound more than peppers (maybe even appreciate it to some extent), I think this was the right call, especially for Violette de Bordeaux. I found someone selling used containers and bought forty 9-12 gal ones for $75 so time to start putting them to use...
Update on the new fig varieties that I rooted this winter. Most of them (38/41) rooted successfully, and several have main crop figs on them already.
Top performing varieties so far include
Black Bethlehem (vigorous growth + lots of figs)
Florea (early to produce figs, even had a ripe main crop fig a week ago)
LSU Tiger (huge leaves already, plus good growth overall with early figs)
LSU Improved Celeste, the top performer overall with lots of figs and very vigorous growth
And Colosanti Red - no figs yet but it's the one with the most vigorous growth so next year should be good. Honorable mention to Val Rosso and Negronne too, they also have quite vigorous growth.
Seems like you're harvesting more than me! How?! lol
Awesome Figs in pots! You can sell those.
I sold one Florea fig plant to a friend, since I had 4 plants of that variety, but I'm mostly going to keep them for now to see how they produce, and then maybe consider selling some after the second year. I've only harvested 8 figs for now, and probably won't get any more until late August now that the brebas have all been picked. Unless you were referring to harvests of other vegetables?
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