Interesting to see edible backyard urban homesteaders and the diversity of grower types on this forum.

200 fig varieties Harvey?  Wow!

And Wills 177 fig varieties wow!  And 200 blueberries  - yes I recently got 9 blueberries and keen to eventually propagate them when the time comes when they’re bigger as I’d really like to have a couple hundred blueberries as they cost $13 in my city for a small punnet .  I will research how to do propagate – cant be hard, as I’ve done it with other plants like lavender.

Waynea – 210 varieties! Wow again

Who here are what type of fig grower are you? 

Fig farmers, farmers, suburban fig enthusiasts and city pot figgers.
fig farmer.....general farmer growing diverse things including figs....suburban fig backyard grower.....city potted fig growers...balcony apartment dwellers....commercial fig sellers?
which are you?

How many fig varieties do you grow? How long growing figs for?

Dave, thankyou sooooo much for posting these two photos of your passion fruit vine frames.   I've got several of these plants in the ground and have been wondering what sort of frame I'd need to put in place before they really start growing (its winter here still) so you have answered this for me thankyou.

Also, from my understanding one doesn't need to hand pollinate, the bees do this job.  

Gen
hello from Down Under

Thanks Nichole, yes I’d read the perils of growing fruit from seed, but groceries stores never knew the variety of these plums etc, and so I thought I’m prepared to take the gamble.  Actually thats a VERY good idea to graft these seedlings onto dward rootstock.

Wow Grasa, you have really packed a punch for a city plot!  Thats very impressive what you’ve planted and the diversity too!  There’s even berries I’d never head of before, so am now going to google them (Marionberries, salmonberries).

Jkuo sounds like  you have truly developed your suburban edible oasis – and to have everything so fresh to just pick and give to your son too - and Im going to even google your berries (pineberries,  goumi bush, Juneberry).  You must have a real true green thumb there. 

Very very inspiring...

Anyone here become an urban homesteader on their small city house block?  Trying to pack it all in on a compact allotment?  I'm interested to hear if you have grown the many areas of homesteading - vegie patches, fruit trees, chooks, composting, bees, solar panels etc  along with your fig trees, and what was it that started you on this journey?  What inspired you?

I live in inner city Melbourne, surrounded by neighbouring properties with concrete gardens or manicured lawns.  I think back to that show I used to watch 30 years ago 'The Good Life' and chuckle. I drew alot of inspiration from the youtube video on the Dervaes Family family urban homesteading over in America and what they can do and produce on their city block.  But my initial inspiration was a combination of self sufficiency, access to organic foods (too pricey for organic in our shops here), access to fruit that I love that has very short stocking store times here (my favourite plum is only in stock less than a week each year here - so I started growing the pips!), access to fruit one can never buy in shops in my city (eg. pepinos  and soon to be fig varieties one day), and a determination to change my health around and start learning about nutrition for healing, superfoods and growing foods, and back to basics I guess.