Hardy Chicago

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Ripe fig of the Hardy Chicago variety

Hardy Chicago is a fig variety of the species Ficus carica that is grown in home gardens , especially in the cooler areas of North America . The variety is considered to be very hardy , robust, productive and tasty. It probably comes from Mount Etna in Sicily and is similar to the Brown Turkey variety . She is a double-bearing house fig.

tree

Hardy Chicago is strong, fast and bushy in growth. The leaf is usually five-lobed and cut to a medium depth with a hairy underside and therefore a velvety handle, similar to the Pastilière variety .

fruit

Hardy Chicago is virgin , which means that it carries figs even without pollination by the fig gall wasp . The variety sometimes also bears flowering figs , but the main harvest is the autumn figs , which ripen very early in Central Europe from the second half of August. The figs are rather small and rarely weigh more than 45 grams. They are round to teardrop-shaped, predominantly purple to brown with red flesh.

Winter hardiness

Hardy Chicago is considered to be very hardy and is successfully grown outdoors in Germany. In a multi-year trial with various fig varieties in Gothenburg , Sweden , Hardy Chicago turned out to be the variety, along with Ronde de Bordeaux , that withstood low winter temperatures best. However, at the latest at a temperature of −23 ° C, the above-ground parts of this variety freeze to death and only the rootstock survives, which, however, willingly sprouts again and can already bear autumn figs on the root saplings in the first year after freezing .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ficus Carica Hardy Chicago / Mongibello at feigenbaum1.wordpress.com.
  2. ↑ Hardy Chicago at galgoni.com.
  3. ↑ Ficus Carica Hardy Chicago / Mongibello at feigenbaum1.wordpress.com.
  4. ↑ Jack Staub: 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden , Salt Lake City u. a. 2007, pages 87 and 90.
  5. ↑ Hardy Chicago at galgoni.com.
  6. ↑ Fig Growing in Sweden at fruitiers-rares.info.
  7. ↑ Hardy Chicago at feigen.bueschken.com.
  8. ↑ Cold Hardy Fig Varieties: Tips For Growing Winter Hardy Figs at gardeningknowhow.com.