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  • From: jas39a@earthlink.net
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] figs
  • Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:35:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Fresh figs are wonderful. Our bush is loaded this year, and we will have at
least a bushel of ripe figs to deal with (fortunately, they don't all get
ripe at once). I live at the northern edge of where they can be successfully
grown outside (zone 7a). The tree dies back every year to the height that I
mulch it, but it sprouts anew every spring, and we have enough heat, and a
long enough growing season, to ripen them. And, as a bonus, deer completely
ignore figs. I treasure my tree.

Eddie Earles

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
>Sent: Aug 1, 2008 1:05 PM
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [NAFEX] figs
>
>I have had three fig plants in big pots for seven years. Never had a
>ripe fig Plenty of green figs which fell off unripe. Today I picked
>two ripe figs from the Chicago Hardy. Tasted good. I bring them in
>during the winter and the leaves promptly fall off. Last winter I
>kept them next to a window and a windowed door. Leaves did not fall
>off and new leaves grew. If you live where it is warm most of the
>year it probably sounds dumb to talk about two ripe figs but I am
>proud. Severe winter temps here. Not home of the fig.
>
>Minnesota zone 2-3
>
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