Kansas Fig pics

Hardy Chicago fig

DesertDance's Violette de Bordeaux fig

Alma fig

First Hardy Chicago Fig

I picked my first Hardy Chicago fig today; it's the smaller fruit on the right (Violette de Bordeaux on the left).  I started the plant over the winter from a cutting.

Here they are cut open (3 pieces on left are VdB, 3 on the right are HC):

They were both delicious.  Both varieties are keepers.

Another bunch of bananas is ripening

I noticed a few days ago that another bunch was starting to turn yellow.  I've eaten about 6 so far, just breaking off individual yellow fingers whenever I'm hungry for fresh bananas.  Here are some pics that I took today:

 

Fresh Figs

Picked some fresh figs today, a purple Bordeaux-type (DesertDance's Violette de Bordeaux) and two Conadria.  The Conadria fruits were under-ripe yet already spoiled (the fruits don't seem to do well in my excessively humid/wet aquaponics tunnel), but the Bordeaux fig was delicious. 

Tasty Dwarf Orinoco Banana Harvest

Here's my first Dwarf Orinoco bunch of the season.  With this variety, the fruit doesn't get ripe until the skin has a lot of black on it, so they're not quite ripe in that bottom picture.  But that pic was from yesterday, and today they seemed about ripe, so...

nom nom nom...Mmm...nom nom nom

They're pretty good!  They taste a lot like a grocery store banana, but with a hint of strawberry :) 

Kansas Bananas on the First Day of Summer

June 21st marks the first official day of summer, so it's time for an end-of-spring update :)

There are currently 3 Dwarf Orinoco banana bunches hanging in the semi-pit tunnel greenhouse and a 4th, a Dwarf Brazilian, that is flowering:

Here are some of the young fig plants in the semi-pit tunnel (Panache, Violette de Bordeaux, Col de Dame Noir/Celeste):

Some of the figs in the high tunnel aquaponics system:

And finally some pics from the newly transplanted outdoor mini-plantation (the bunch is Dwarf Orinoco, fig is Salce) -

 

Conadria Fig