Rising figs in my yard (or now in my entrance yard) isn’t solely a dream. It’s a actuality. My three Chicago Hardy fig bushes are rising sturdy and two have produced figs!
I didn’t know tons about rising figs as quickly as I launched into this explicit gardening journey. I merely knew that I really like updated figs. The primary time I tasted updated figs in New York when a coworker launched some into work, I used to be smitten. I knew then and there that anytime I would develop my very private updated figs finally, I would.
It took me a number of years earlier than I chosen the Chicago Hardy fig tree. I chosen it as a consequence of its chilly resistance. I didn’t need to fuss with wrapping up my bushes to guard them in opposition to winter frosts, ice, and snow.
The Chicago Hardy fig is meant to be warmth and drought resistant, a plus correct proper right here in Virginia. It’s furthermore marked for zones 5 to 10. A neighborhood of Sicily, Italy, it’s acknowledged to rebound rapidly if it dies as soon as extra all through the winter and develops figs on new enchancment merely as rapidly.
Do Figs Have Flowers?
Sure and no. The Chicago Hardy fig is amongst three sorts of fig bushes. It is called a typical fig and it doesn’t flower. It produces self-contained fruits with each female and male half on new enchancment.
Shock! We’ve child figs 🙂
In response to plenty of the web sites I consulted, you positively get figs with only one plant. Many say that once you’ve gotten extra vegetation you’ll get extra figs. I can’t determine how that works. If the plant is self-fertile, why would having extra bushes of the same selection impact the amount of figs? I must analysis this extra nevertheless when any of my readers have a solution, depart a remark.
The figs should take just a few extra weeks to mature to purple, golfball-sized fruits. I can’t wait!
Everybody who has grown figs warns me about squirrels attending to them. Our fig bushes are in pots right subsequent to the doorway porch the place our exterior cats favor to lounge so I doubt squirrels will get earlier them.
That is my first 12 months rising figs and the little bushes optimistic shocked me. I can’t wait to see what they’ve in retailer for me subsequent 12 months after they develop barely higher!
