Drivewayfarmer inspired me so I wanted to share a third of my container trees.  Those with black plastic tops are my man made self watering pots.  Last year I tested these out to just plain on watering from the top.  My healthiest trees were those watered from the bottom!  Those on my patio are in the Walmart self watering pots, 16in and 11in.  All are being watered using 1 gallon drip emmitters.


These picture only show about two thirds of my container garden.  I love to see neighbors faces when they walk by!  I had a snapping turtle problem last year.  I live only minutes from the river and adjacent to a creek.  They were eating my bottom hanging figs until I caught one.  He's now in Turtleville. 

And the bowl of figs is just an average daily pick of figs.  Enjoy.

Hi Noss

As you can see in the pictures, the San Gabriel river is about 150 to 200 feet past my first two planted trees. I chose a Brown Turkey and a Kadota that I purchased from Lowes and Wal-Mart for $20 a tree. I just put them into the ground to see what happens this summer. I had to recover the Brown Turkey roots that were partially exposed by some hogs perhaps less than a week after I planted it. There was no planning I just decided to put the two trees into the ground and see if I could get a couple of figs this year. They look like they are at least two years old when I bought them. I also got hit by the poison oak and poison ivy twice in less than a month which slowed down my work dramatically. This property is mainly used for hay and along the edges was never cleaned for many years now.
I will at some point clean up the areas around the edges of this property and plant my trees as close to the river as possible. This property has over 3300 feet of frontage along the river, but the banks are high. I'm hoping that the humidity will do the trees some good. It's an experiment. Most probably I will not irrigate or fertilize etc... I just want to see what Mother Nature does.

I just purchase some 9.5 Inc Containers from Walmart and hooked them up to a timer. I will be using them to propagate some of my new figs this summer. Unless otherwise suggested, I will probably repot next season.
I put on the 1 gallon drip irrigators from the top and set them up for 3 minutes daily for now just to test.
They are sitting on a table to protect my plants from rabbits for now.

Dennis i have my 4 little figs in some of the WalMart self watering pots . the buds have opened and there are little leafs popping out .

JD, before I saw what Dennis used, I used 1 part perlite and 1 part peat moss and a little bit of composted cow manure(about 1/3 part) along with 1/2 a measuring cup of Osmocote . Since the roots are still fragile, I will leave the figs alone for now and when it's time to repot I will use Dennis's formula, namely "Peat Moss, Cow Manure, Mushroom compost, Perlite, and lime (not the white fast acting stuff) in a ratio of 2/1/1/1 and a cup of lime."
I will monitor to see if my mix has "wick-ability" or not and report at a later date along with some pictures. If I see any signs of stress, I' ll go back to watering from the top for now.