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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 08:24:06 -0800
> 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.
> Alex McGregor
> Walden Farm
Thanks, but it wasn't me who was trying to grow them in a hoophouse. It was
Joan in KS.
Here (in CA) the fig of choice seems to be Black Mission. No one seems to
sell the green ones with the pink flesh. I think they might have special
pollination needs.
ANd again- $5 per littel strawberry basket!!!
Steve
www.ranchogordo.com
-
[Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Caryl Elzinga, 02/10/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Del Williams, 02/10/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Rick Williams, 02/10/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Victor Jackowsky, 02/10/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Rick Williams, 02/10/2003
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[Market-farming] Figs,
Joan Vibert, 02/11/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] Figs,
Steve Sando, 02/11/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] Figs, Alex McGregor, 02/11/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] Figs, Steve Sando, 02/11/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] Figs, Joan Vibert, 02/11/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] Figs, Steve Sando, 02/11/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] Figs, Joan Vibert, 02/11/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] Figs,
Steve Sando, 02/11/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] Figs, Willie McKemie, 02/11/2003
- [Market-farming] New site, van weldon, 02/12/2003
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[Market-farming] Figs,
Joan Vibert, 02/11/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Rick Williams, 02/10/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Victor Jackowsky, 02/10/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Rick Williams, 02/10/2003
- [Market-farming] Jay's help, Joan Vibert, 02/11/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] Jay's criticism of Rick Ws web site,
Del Williams, 02/10/2003
- [Market-farming] How to Direct-Market Farm Products on the Internet, Dave Lilligren, 02/10/2003
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