It stays in the pot (we have a very large Compania pot—40 inches). It’s too cold where I live to keep the tree in the ground in the winter.
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Have you tried planting Chicago Hardy?
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I think the Gardener’s Path’s writer is too optimistic. I am in 6a. I have grown Hardy Chicago in ground and in pots for almost 10 years. The one (unprotected) in ground has died to the ground every year. It will grow back and fruit. Fruit will ripen in time or not depending that year’s weather.
Potted figs are a way to go in zone 6 and lower. I keep my potted Hardy Chicago in my unheated garage during winter months.
More tender varieties are kept in an unfinished basement (never go below freezing)
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I ‘volunteered’ to eat them last night! 
Yum!
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Little kid inhaled the Japanese cuke I picked for her yesterday! Said it was the tastiest ever. I can’t confirm until the next one ripens. 
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Treated myself to a new harvest basket. I have been using a vintage woven basket for years. It’s fine but I hesitate to get it wet. I like to keep it in my car to take to my community garden.
Here’s the one I got. I like the shape of it, that I can rinse vegetables at the garden before putting in the car and bringing home and the basket itself will be easy to wash and keep clean.
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OOH! I want one ; ). Going on the wish list!
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If you have an Ace Hardware ads on my computer tell me they carry it. 
Admittedly, I love when Amazon can just hand delivery me items though!
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If the leaf footed bugs don’t ruin the fruit, there will be a lot of pomegranates by Thanksgiving!
Am waiting for the birds to start eating the sunflower seeds so I know that the seeds are ready to harvest for next year. 
It’s 106 here today but at least the lemon grass and the sweet potatoes don’t mind. Next winter, I’m going to spray paint a mural on the fence. That brown box thing that’s buried is a worm bin.
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Any tips on relocating a smallish rhododendron? We planted one a couple of years ago in a bed at the side of the house. Later planted a spirea also in the same bed. The two are fighting for space now and I was thinking we should move one of the plants out to a different bed before they get too big to handle.
Spirea can take a good haircut; I’d trim
It if moving the rhodie is a problem. We successfully moved rhododendrons by carefully digging the rootball and replanting in a location with similar sun exposure, but we did it in the early spring.
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I agree with the @BunsenBurner plan of attack. Trim the spirea now and move one of the plants in the fall or spring. Depending on your location fall is often a good time to plant/replant because the plant can get it’s root system a little established before the next growing season (spring!).
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Summer is definitely here in the Phoenix area. It’s going to be 110 tomorrow, 112 on Sunday, dropping to a balmy 108 on Independence Day. 
Bleh! Wish that I’d planned a trip to San Diego for this week!
In the meantime, am having to provide supplemental watering every other day to my tropical plants once the temp is the 105+ range.
It sounds like the spirea would do better in direct sunlight - so it might actually be better to move that. I thought we had a mounded spirea (was a gift) but it doesn’t look like it at all right now. Has shoots coming out from near the ground and spiraling open. Some of the old wood (from last year) appears to be dead. The new shoots do look fine and did have flowers earlier.
Thanks for the advice. I might leave the transplanting to later this summer/early fall. We’ve had pretty constant rain and I was amazed to see how much these plants grew in the one week I was gone!
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My garden basket came and let me tell you it is NICE! It is def bigger than I imagined and really sturdy - not overly heavy but not a lightweight- I’m really surprised it was only $23 (when I bought it)!!
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LOL. After having purchased 3 of the pricey cloches from Gardener’s Supply that you mentioned (on sale at least), I just saw a YouTube video where someone went to Dollar Tree and bought these wire baskets that are surprisingly similarly useful (for a mere $1.25 each). I rushed out and bought 30! They’re great. And the black wire makes them kind of disappear into the landscape while your plant grows. I’ll try to include a photo if I can figure it out.
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Sorry for spending all your money!
Dang, I was just in a Dollar Tree a couple days ago - which happens about once a year! I may have to go back and see if they have these- what section of the store did you find them - is it actually like a small trash receptacle?? 
Probably would be helpful to have some type of “pin” to secure it in the ground - sort of a “v” shaped pin that you could invert and use??
Yes it looks like a small wire wastebasket, but they were in the laundry aisle 
. I do have landscape staples that would clamp them down, but currently the wildlife I’m battling is bunnies and they seem to not know they could just shove these baskets—I haven’t needed any device to hold them in place. I did kind of rotate and push them as I laid them down, so they are perhaps half an inch buried. Seems secure enough!
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Omg I’m totally running to the Dollar (and a Quarter) Tree to look for these bunny deterrents! Thanks for the tip!
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Oh, I bet you could anchor them down with weight of brick (or big rock) like I do with my trash baskets and flower pots before hail storms.
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