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I pay a big strapping teenager to drag my 75 figs in & out of a  
basement that stays around 40 but occasionally gets below freezing.   
There is a furnace there so the real issue is dryness, typically I  
water everything twice in the course of the winter.  Last winter I  
forgot & literally all the buds & breba crop on every tree dessicated  
& many of the trees (some of them 20 years old) died back to the  
roots.  Of your 2 options I would choose the basement.

~mIEKAL


On Sep 29, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Doreen Howard wrote:

> How do you store your fig trees over the winter?  I'm on the  
> Illinois-Wisconsin border in Zone 4b and planted my first fig in a  
> large container last spring.  My garage isn't heated, but plants  
> placed against the house walls in the garage survive.  I thought I  
> could overwinter the fig there.  I also put some large containers of  
> ornamentals in the basement for the winter.  It never goes below 40F  
> there, though, so chilling doesn't occur.  I'm interested in your  
> techniques.
> Doreen Howard