Friday continued the spell of mild and sunny spring weather of the last few days.
I did some more tidying up in the home greenhouse clearing out some of the rubbish that has accumulated over winter. One corner of the greenhouse has now been given over to our two fig trees.
Our larger fig had a top dressing of new compost applied and our smaller fig was repotted into a larger pot as it was drying out far too quickly in its small pot. Even at this early stage of the season the large fig has three generations of fruits. The largest fruits which have over wintered on the tree look rather pale and I'm expecting them to fall off without going on to produce any useful fruit. The two tubs in front of the figs are our over wintering osteospermums. These will need some fresh compost before they are moved outside once the danger of any frost has passed.
These are the newest two generations which appear a much more healthy shade of green and are growing rapidly. I’m hoping that the trees will like their new location just inside the greenhouse door.
I've still got plenty more areas to sort out in the greenhouse before its ready for its summer crop of tomatoes, aubergines and peppers.
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Hello this is my frist visit to your blog. Believe it or. to, I have been to Wakefield. In 2006 I toured England with a group of university students studying to be English teachers. Our tour was a literary tour visiting the the places where the great English poets and writers lived and worked. Wakefield was our over night for our trip to visit William Wordsworth in Grasmere. We took our first group of students in 2001. I taught literature and writing at the University of Northern Colorado for 18 years, retiring last spring. I live on the northern plains of Colorado,USA and have blogged for 3 years now. I have several blog friends in the UK; you are the first to actually live in a town I have visited. I love English gardens and their gardeners. My ancestors came from England on the Mayflower, so I feel such a connection to England, and I want to return without a group of college students tagging along. And it looks like I will learn a lot about gardening from you. Hope to see you at my Garden Spot.
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DeleteGlad you enjoyed your trips to England. I'll see if I can track down your Garden Spot blog.
I've seen fig trees in Cyprus and was surprised you grow them in pots in green house! What do you do with its fruit?
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We haven't managed to produce enough figs to "do" anything with. The ones we have managed to harvest have been eaten as tasters.
DeleteI've probably mentioned it before but I love fig trees. I picked all of the fruitlets off of mine last year (I thought Bob Flowerdew said I should) and then someone told me that I'd picked off all of this year's fruit. So I don't know what will happen. I've never had an edible fig yet (my plants are still small), but I live in hope.
ReplyDeleteI think you are right and that all small figs should be removed in autumn. I don't think those tiny figs removed in the autumn are all this years crop though. Our tree is busy producing new figs this spring which look much better than those I left on the tree last autumn. The trees are a bit odd aren't they as ours has more figs than leaves just now. I didn't see any fig flowers either. They do make a good looking pot plant though. Our small tree is still to produce its first fig. I'm not sure how big or old a tree has to be to produce any fruit.
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