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  • From: "Steve Sando" <steve AT mrlucky.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Figs
  • Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:43:26 -0800


> I'd like to know if anyone on the list has experience growing figs. I'm
> seriously thinking about getting into them and am considering growing them
> in a hoophouse. We are right on the edge of zones 5 & 6 so the hoophouse
> would bump us to zones 6 & 7.

I've seen fig trees get very big so that would need to be a big hoophouse!

Once the tree is established, it's a fruit bearing machine. Here in
California where they do well easily, vendors still get about 5 bucks a
basket! I started two trees this year to cash in on the fun.

Steve
www.ranchogordo.com






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