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Posted by silkvelvet UK South (My Page) on Tue, Aug 8, 06 at 10:48
| I was sooo pleased, that I even photographed it before I ate it.. I had one ripe fig from my little fig tree this summer (year 2 after purchase).
Has any one (in South and South East especially) had figs, olives or anything else exotic and edible in their garden this Summer ?? |
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- Posted by suiko Oxford, England (My Page) on
Wed, Aug 9, 06 at 3:56
| I get some figs every year here in Oxford. Not really a problem even in an average summer. |
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| I've got two fig treelets; one bought two or three years ago from the bargain bin, exact type unknown, which is in a big pot and stays outdoors over winter. It's quite big, lots of leaves, and has one biggish green fig on it which I'm waiting for - that'll be the first. The other came as a present from a friend last year, Brown Turkey, is in a small pot and overwintered in the greenhouse. About 40/50cm tall now, not so many leaves, but we have had 5 figs off it already. Small, but delicious! The olives on my little spindly tree in a pot don't seem to get bigger than tiny beads before they disappear... |
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| I get about 7-8 figs every year here in the south of Ireland. |
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| Four figs so far. That's four more than last year. No olives, but then it's only 50cm high. |
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| DO FIGS NEED SPECIAL SOIL. IN ONE YEAR MY FIG TREE HAS ONLY GROWN 6" |
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looked after a fig for 16 years at work and this year its got loads of figs on it and i picked and ate one yesterday!
It would ahve produced figs other years but its in a daft sopt in a polytunnel and uptil now hasnt had the room as its been cut back regularly for access, it tends to get very rampant |
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- Posted by suiko Oxford, England (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 12, 06 at 7:23
| DO FIGS NEED SPECIAL SOIL. IN ONE YEAR MY FIG TREE HAS ONLY GROWN 6" No, they'll grow in builders' rubble or out of walls! Is yours getting enough sun? |
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