2023-02-16: Figs in the Greenhouse

Thursday, February 16, 2023

High: 64.0

Low: 42.0

Partly Cloudy

What a day!

I moved all of the crawl space figs into the greenhouse. Before doing so, I gave them some fertilizer (Miracle Gro slow release) and washed it down with some diluted fish emulsion. I also did some light pruning. There was a lot of dead wood! I'm very curious to see who is still alive and who is done. I kept track of the inventory as I went along.

I also unwrapped the five other in-ground figs.

Things I would do differently:

- Wrap the burlap around the tree first, then the chicken-wire leaf insulation.

- Use smaller containers. I have some small plants in 15G containers and I don't think that's good.

- Use less potash. I got a little too generous, I think. I put some ash in the container in November before I put them to rest, but I don't think there was any benefit to that. Potash is a source of potassium, it's not a fertilizer.

- Prune figs in containers to be tree-shaped, not bush-shaped. For example, the Olympian and the LSU Purple. They are growing into bushes and that's going to make it difficult to move them around.

The soil that the crawl space figs were in was still moist, even though I didn't water them for about 3 months. They were all pretty heavily mulched.