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the once a month Work Away and i came home with 6 asparagus starts and this,  OH, This,  young and elegant Fig Tree.  They are expert Growers….had started too many Fig Trees…can you

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too many????Fig Trees????????   Will need to think very carefully about where to plant it.  They Can be container planted for a long time….but do it want to do that?  And if not,  how to plant when Tay is not watching.  She believes that Unplanting is the same as Planting.   It's Beauty FULL.  I so much want it to do well.

 

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  1. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Oh, asparagus … nothing like fresh ones. One month of pure bliss each year and so worth the wait.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    here, along the irrigation of the alfalfa fields, wild asparagus grows.
    Just in view, my neighbor Kenny Bustamante’s field. there’s no way i could know how many people know this. But i imagine all of
    us, many many of us, cruising by oh so slowly in our vehicles, looking,
    waiting for the first opportunity to stop, jump out and harvest. In 20
    years, i have been the Lucky One maybe 4 times. It is SUBLIME.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    What a healthy looking little fig, perhaps a little stick & cloth fence like those ones in the “Living Shrines of Uyghur China” would be both aesthetically pleasing & help Tay understand about planting.
    & yumm, figs with goat cheese in autumn and fresh asparagus in spring, that’s close to paradise!

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  4. debbie.weaver Avatar
    debbie.weaver

    Give a fig tree a bit of space and you don’t get many figs, if you plant it in the garden make sure its roots can’t spread far.

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    I didn’t know that Debbie, the best fig treess I have ever seen were at a rented house in Houston in the early 60’s, the fruit was abundant & delicious and the trees were great fun for little kids to climb… but thinking about the fogging of the streets with DDT in summer for the mosquitoes makes me understand now in hindsight why those figs didn’t have any pests and also why my immune system is so compromised… we would stay indoors for the fogging but once the truck had gone ’round the corner would go back outside to play… hmmm we were silly kids…

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  6. Els Avatar
    Els

    Love that GREEN young tree !
    (hmmm heard about that lack of space / better fruit too …)

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    what a beautiful thought!….will spend time with that book
    tomorrow. BEAUTY FULL thought!!!!!!

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i have been reading and watching UTube and yes, this is said
    over and over. One utube that i really liked, a UK gardner,
    tells how the Old Gardners would plant the tree 18 inches from the
    foundation of the house and then set pieces of slate, upright,
    in the hole before filling it in, thereby creating a kind of
    “container”. Need to keep reading. How does work in other
    countries where they are just planted???…where they live Free?
    But i realized that for now, a container is good enough. This year and maybe next. Much to learn.
    Do you have a fig tree?

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    So many things to know. I didn’t think figs are bothered much by
    pests????
    are there figs in Australia?
    it was incredible wasn’t it…the fogging. Even here, when my
    daughter first came they would do that where she rented. She
    moved. That was maybe 1991. Not long ago. I wonder if they
    still do it further into the valley along the irrigation ditches.
    again…so many things to know. They live now in california
    where they “dust” the crops….the food that ends up in our
    stores all over the United States

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. evidently, the tree will just continue carrying on with
    it’s treeness. Only when the roots TOUCH an edge will it turn
    it’s mind to setting fruit.
    But then again…what about the places in the “OLD WORLD” where
    they originally come from.
    Want to find out the answer to this.

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Figs grow here in Sydney but need to be netted because the birds, possums and fruit bats eat all the fruit!

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    we have a fige tree , last year the BIG HAIL had wound him badly, i need to lop ( prune ? )them and now there come new figs on , i kised him and say thank you for al that grow power

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  13. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    here in Sydney edible figs are prone to powdery mildew in the late autumn, they prefer a Mediterranean climate, drier in summer and colder in winter your climate will probably be perfect if you can give them enough water in the fruiting season

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  14. debbie.weaver Avatar
    debbie.weaver

    I do have a fig tree, it isn’t doing well, its pot is too big I am just about to move it into a pot half the size. My brother has had wonderful figs in his last two houses and he plants them near a wall and puts slabs all round the hole before he plants the fig. When you see wild figs in the medeterranean they are often growing in walls or rocky terrain.

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