Well now. My fridge went out. Its dead. Its maaking heat instead of cool. Its also where I was storing my cuttings that I haven't got to rooting yet. Unfortunatly some have been lost to the wind like black spanish and black greek that I got from a very kind member. Some of my own stash has gotten furry friends. I'm hoping they will be ok after a good cleaning. Today my first day off in some time from the nursing home was spent cleaning and potting up 50 figs that I'm hoping will make it. I am sure they will as they were still nice and green when scraped. So far the only ones lost for sure are as said black greek, black spanish, and a small florea. Any ideals on how the rest my fair out. I was able to get some started back in november and december. Any ideals, here's hoping.

Where can a guy get a good fridge for cheep. Nothing fancy

Craigslist... might even be free for pick up. good luck.

Did you try a manual defrost Dave? Sometimes a vent or something frosts over and hat is the only problem. 

That sucks.

Sorry to hear that garden whisperer.  Craigslist and freecycle.org are probably worth checking.

That's a bummer.  In November 2011 my walkin defrost clock quit working at the same time the defrost high-temp safety shut-off was broken and I lost the remaining $10,000 of my chestnut inventory, so I have a pretty good how a big disappointment feels!

One cheap fairly economical method for storing lots of cuttings is to buy a used chest freezer and buy an axillary thermostat which you can program to whatever temperature you want.  Runs something like $100 + $75 and is very versatile and doesn't dry things out so badly.  I first heard of the idea from someone who stores his apples in such a setup but have since read that some home brewers use this for controlling the temperature of their batch while brewing.

Hi Garden_Whisperer,
Go to the garden ( if you have one) with a shovel make a 50 cm*50 cm*50 cm hole - well a one meter depth would be better but ...
Put the cuttings inside, and put some wood frame over the hole. Put some straw/plastic cover over that, if you have, and you should be done .
Here, some do conserve their carrots like that during the winter.

Sorry about your fridge problem.  I like jdsfrance's idea!  We sold both a freezer and a fridge on Craigslist for CHEAP!  JD just wanted them OUT of his garage!  They were left from his mom's estate and both worked just fine.  Good luck to you!

Suzi