Fotos of Portable Fig Orchard at DRIFTLESS SACRED GROVE

HarveyC
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I received those emitters from the eBay seller (posted above) on Friday. Today I tested one of them out and it performed fine.

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Bosco
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A very nice collection you have displayed here. Beautiful photos too! Never ceases to impress me, the dedication and passion you folks in the colder climates have for your fig trees. No doubt a herculean effort doing the fig shuffle twice a year and true labor of love. I’m impressed with the size of trees in 5 gallon buckets shown here. What the secret to that? You need to prune roots regularly…?

@HarveyC…… I have used the emitter you mention (http://www.ebay.com/itm/321303687740) for years and can highly recommend. I use them primarily in my vegetable garden on everything from squash to tomatoes. I like adjustable volume control on each. Emitter without spike is also available, so you can mount on taller spike or tube end.

Now with all the drip irrigation talk, I should get busy and put some in for my fledgling fig collection, ha, ha.

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Beyondista
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The varieties that actually ripen figs here I typically pay a lot more attention to root pruning and keeping them actively growing. A few varieties like Green Ischia which'll never ripen here are extremely rootbound but the trees keep plugging away nonetheless.

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chucklikestofish
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Originally Posted by Beyondista
During this year's summer forest garden tour and wine-tasting I managed to get a few decent photos of my portable fig orchard. Being in Wisconsin, all my figs come out of a semi-heated basement around May 15 and stay outside until around November 1st, after they have dropped leaves and have started going dormant.

I began this project in 1991, here's a pic of the oldest trees from the first year or two.

Each year I tell myself I'm gonna get a automatic watering setup going. There is over a hundred trees, around 40+ varieties. Of those varieties, 7 or 8 ripen fruit in Wisconsin without a greenhouse. I'm in southwestern WI, so don't get the benefit of lake effect.

It always seems like there is something new to worry about. Lately, it's been that the chickens and ducks have developed a taste for perfectly ripe figs. & just be glad that you're not the strong young man that has to drag all of these in and out of the basement twice a year.

~your trees are awesome ,oh well i guess 5 gal works good,thats what mine are in ,i do feed them,and water when needed,very nice trees you have ,thanks for sharing ~!

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