Red Hat Ladies

GreenFin Gardens hosted the Red Hat Ladies for a tour on Thursday.  They're a wonderful group of ladies, and we really enjoyed showing them around and giving them the chance to taste some authentic Kansas-grown bananas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salce fig - plant, leaf, and fruit

 

More Kansas Figs

Salce fig

DD's VdB fig (1st in dirt, 2nd in cup in aquaponics system; interesting color differences)

Alma figs

Bottom two are Alma figs, top left is Hardy Chicago, top right is DD's VdB (dirt)

DD's VdB was rotten, the Alma figs were sweet and good, and the Hardy Chicago was outstanding.

 

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.