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  • From: Alex McGregor <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Figs
  • Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:11:59 -0500

Steve,

A friend and fellow market farmer just across the state line in Georgia, Zone
7,
grows figs and they're prolific. I rooted some cuttings of some of his
varieties (mainly Brown Turkey?) to try them here. I'm on the Cumberland
Plateau at 2,200 ft., so that puts me somewhere around Zone 6.

I've got them covered with pots now and we'll see if they survived the last
arctic blast (+10 deg.). Yours should do well in a hoophouse, but be sure you
get the hardiest varieties and keep them pruned. The air in an unheated
hoophouse will reach freezing, but the soil probably won't, protecting the
roots.

Steve Sando wrote:

> > 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.

--
Alex McGregor
Walden Farm






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