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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:

> . . . my 'heated greenhouse' was more
> work than it was worth, but left unheated, all the passive solar  
> features I
> put in raise the climate zone a couple numbers year round  and gives  
> me
> another 2-3 months of growing season. It's like having a small patch  
> of
> Georgia (or at least the Carolinas) on my frozen northern farm. And  
> figs
> (one of the things I love that won't grow here) LOVE my  
> greenhouse...I've
> got a fig plantation growing along the north wall, right up to the  
> ridge.

Lynn, how tall do the figs grow?