Fig tree and garden update | Spring

Here’s an exciting update on the state of our elephant ear and jelly fig trees, and a special bonus if you make it to the end!

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Another place with exciting developments this spring is our garden!

Long time readers will remember our love of our two fig trees and my obsession with their growth and productivity.  Read on for an update on this front!

Or feel free to skip this post if gardening isn’t your thing. I won’t be offended.

Elephant ear fig tree

I made the executive decision to prune the elephant ear fig tree this season.  Most gardening advice states that trees should be pruned in the “off” season, when the weather is colder and the tree is dormant.  I procrastinated a bit, and didn’t get to it until the beginning of April, when the weather was already warming up.

Since I was late, I sadly had to prune off a lot of the branches that already had buds ready to burst forth with leaves and figs!  

I was worried about the tree, but it seems to have bounced back very nicely with much fuller growth.  It’s much less skeletal in appearance, and I think the aggressive pruning will do it a whole lot of good.

It’s even started producing figs! Dozens of them. I’m looking forward to a massive crop later this summer.

In related news, I felt bad tossing out the nice branches, so I half heartedly prepped them in this fashion and stuck them into some growth medium.  I wasn’t expecting much, to be honest.

I was pleasantly surprised that they didn’t die! They stubbornly kept on growing slowly and producing leaves.

I separated them out into their own pots a few weeks ago.  I definitely stripped off some of their delicate root systems in the process, so I’m again doubly surprised that they’re still seemingly alive. We’ll see if they turn into little trees of their own.

My fig sapling count is rapidly increasing!

Jelly fig

Not to neglect the precious jelly fig saplings, here is an update on their growth as well.

In short, they are doing great!   After trimming off the silly little tiny figs that they had made, the branch and leaf growth really took off.  The parent tree is also lush and ready for a great growing season.

I’m looking forward to a great crop this year.  

As a bonus, here is a picture of the large raised planter bed that we made.

What should we plant in this? I’ve got a couple of good ideas, so stay tuned for the next update on our garden!

— TDD

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