For those of you that have some garden space not currently taken up by figs, you might be interested in this. I have a bunch of heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables that I started from seed inside this past fall and have some leftover seeds. I'd be interested in trading seeds for fig cuttings. Anything with an interesting story or something unique, rare, extra tasty, or spectacular in a long hot summer climate would be of interest.

Here are the seeds that I have available and the number of seeds that I'll send of each variety and how many available packets. They are leftovers, so there aren't a lot of seeds for some. I source my seeds from rareseeds.com, so you can find detailed information about each on their website. I had extremely good germination rates, so you should be fine even with the limited numbered ones. (I used the peat pellet greenhouse.) All got very high user ratings, so any should be a winner. Pick as few or as many as you want and send a PM with an offer! (Probably not in my best interest to state up front, but even if you don't have anything to trade but are still interested in some heirloom gardening, go ahead and pick out some seeds.  I want these seeds to find a good home!)

That's an exciting list!  I don't have any fig cuttings left, but I just purchased a ton of seeds since we finally have room for veggies.  I noticed you are in my same zone, and California is a big state, but I was wondering what time of year do you plant all these seeds.  Will they do OK with our drought conditions?  All of our trees and plants are on drippers, and the veggies will be also.  I'm definitely planting tomatoes, pumpkins, cukes and watermelon.  Would love artichokes but I hear gophers go after them like crazy!  My root riot cubes should be here today, and I'm going to get some started.

Good luck with your trade!

Suzi

Thanks, Suzi! I don't think the drought should cause too much of a problem as long as the dirt is kept moist. The tomatoes will devour those conditions and you'll probably have more than you could ever wish for. I started my seeds inside a couple months ago so that I could have starters ready to go in the ground in February/March after the "really cold" time passed. The general recommendation for planting from seed outside is doing it after the last frost. Where I am, we may get a little frost on a couple nights in January/February. If you fancy any of the seeds, send me a PM. I'd still be happy to send you some. Maybe I can earmark some clippings from your next pruning cycle :)

I don't have many enemies in life, but gophers are one of them. I'm putting in a backyard vineyard this year and have been on a full offensive for the past several years taking out gophers (got 5 this year already, although not near my record of 32 in 2012). For my raised beds, I'm putting chicken wire down at the bottom to keep them out. We'll see how that works.

google gopher baskets.  We also have a vineyard, and every vine is planted in a gopher basket.  Everything is in gopher baskets. including roses and figs and any other fruit trees.

I wish I had known earlier about all your seeds, but I have too many, so I don't need to trade, but I'll be pruning figs next year, and I'll be happy to toss some cuttings your way.  We are in the hills overlooking Hemet.  You?

Suzi

That would be great! I'm also putting in a 150 vine vineyard in my yard, grenache, durif, and mourvedre. I've used gopher baskets on occasion, although never heard of someone doing it with their entire vineyard!

I'm in north San Diego county. Inland. Figs that go in the ground will be on a south facing hill that get LOTS of sun and heat.