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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fig exploring in WI
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:54:59 -0500

I pay a big strapping teenager to drag my 75 figs in & out of a basement that stays around 40 but occasionally gets below freezing. There is a furnace there so the real issue is dryness, typically I water everything twice in the course of the winter. Last winter I forgot & literally all the buds & breba crop on every tree dessicated & many of the trees (some of them 20 years old) died back to the roots. Of your 2 options I would choose the basement.

~mIEKAL


On Sep 29, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Doreen Howard wrote:

How do you store your fig trees over the winter? I'm on the Illinois-Wisconsin border in Zone 4b and planted my first fig in a large container last spring. My garage isn't heated, but plants placed against the house walls in the garage survive. I thought I could overwinter the fig there. I also put some large containers of ornamentals in the basement for the winter. It never goes below 40F there, though, so chilling doesn't occur. I'm interested in your techniques.
Doreen Howard





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