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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

They've gotten tall; the first one I planted is up to the ridge, about 18'. 
They are in raised beds (on a concrete floor), but I guess the roots aren't 
confined enough to keep them small. They are Celeste figs, and will have a 
large crop this year (the oldest is 4 or 5 years old).

Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Got a plan?


>
> 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?
>
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