New trees arrived.  First thing was fixing metal ID tags.  Can you read the names?  I kind of had a hard time but figured it out.  

 

Next they're potted and set to recover awhile behind the window shade.


 

Brown Turkey woke up.  These were tiny, pale leaves just a few days ago.

 

Tiny new bud on LSU Purple 

 

This is my yard with one shovel depth plug removed and water pooling.  

 

That's about it for now but there are cuttings on the way from a couple of generous members!  I'm not sure what all yet but can't wait...

Congrats. Nice new additions to the family you have there.

Hi Charlie, great little trees you got there congrats.

That shovel depth...the water is pooling in it by itself? If so, don't put a fig tree in it, too dump for fig.

Hi Charlie,
This is just the start !
Keep the efforts on.
For your dirt, definitively go raised beds or you'll over-water your trees year round.

Good luck, Charlie!  I hope they all do well for you.

Congrats!! You are off and running!! Sweet sweet collection you've got yourself started. =)










Regards, 
bill o.

Those look like healthy leaves on those.  What nursery did you order from?

These new ones came from Florida Hill Nursery.  My Brown Turkey from Fast Growing Trees.  LSU Purple and Tiger, plus Strawberry Verte being shipped soon from Almost Eden.  I neglected to say when the LSU figs arrived from Almost Eden there was a nice note apologizing for the small stature of the plants and a refund check for one plant.  So I like that and purchased the SV from them also.  Have put the fig name, nursery from and day received on each ID tag for future reference.

with that much water in the yard I would do two things:

1) raised beds are a no-brainer

2) before you plant in the bed, in two or three spots, dig down 2-3 ft with posthole diggers. Then fill these holes with course sand or lighter gravel. I get free crushed glass at our recycle center and use that. Then plant as usual.

The holes are called "dry wells." they will help remove some of the excess water from around the roots. Your water table is really high, but I still think a few dry wells would help next to newly planted figs. They can't hurt, and they only take a 1/2 hour to dig and a bit of sand/gravel.

I use them to control pooling water near my raspberry patch, and I am just doing a few more around one of my new figs that I've noticed pools of water standing after heavy rains.

These "dry wells" are an old water management technique used for various purposes. I am thinking about using them near my muscadines for the reverse purpose, to get water deeper. My muscadines are on the high side of the yard and the water runs off so fast they don't get soaked the way I wish when it rains. But if I sink a couple wells near the vines and fill with sand, they should encourage putting more water down where the muscadines can use it. 

Thanks Gene