Fig Trees & Blueberries

The rain continued Tues but a little bit of clearing Wed gave me time to pot the fig trees and Thurs I did the blueberries. I bought 3 Chicago dwarf figs from Park Seed and 4 Top Hat dwarf blueberry bushes from Gurney's. I researched all my books and some called for 12" deep pots, some called for 18" for both plants. I went with the 12" pots because all of the books said they need to be root bound to produce fruit. Also they will have to be moved inside for winter and easier to lift but mostly because I had eight 12" pots and only a couple of larger ones which are reserved
for my peppers.

Since transplanting the figs are looking very good with tiny green leaves sprouting and the blueberries have fanned out and are looking well. I added extra humus to the berries. The humus has chunks of clay and blueberries prefer more acidic soil.


I spent a few more hours Thur, Fri and Mon getting my cold crops transplanted - Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cabbage - and setting up row 3. I didn't get pictures so I will go into more details about them tomorrow or Wed.

This was taken last Fri. The large green planters on the left are the fig trees. The ones on the right are the blueberries. The clay pots in the back left are broccoli plants and you can see the other trays waiting to be set out. More about the cold crops tomorrow.

Happy gardening,
Linda B:)