Fig Trees

I recently transplanted some fig trees I actually dug out by hand at a radius and depth that I thought I could get 70 to 80 percent of the root mass. This turned out to be about 3 feet across and 3 feet deep. I kept digging from all sides until the tree started to move in the hole, then I was able to rock it out from that point. I did have to cut roots and such (unfortunate), but the alternative was that the guy was just going to chop them down and dispose of them.

I transported them by balancing them on my sons wagon (a very poor choice in hindsight), then lugged them back to my yard where I had already dug a hole appropriate for the root mass. Each tree took about six hours between diggin the hole in my yard, digging the tree out of the other yard and bringing them back to my yard by hand. Now, the trees lost their leaves due to shock and my inadvertently letting them dry out. I thought the trees to be goners until early this spring when I met a gentleman who went into a very long discourse about how to fertilize the roots of trees. I followed his advice and the trees sprang back to life.

Offered by Barry.

Figs are actually one of our big 'national' fruits as you know - along with the olive, the almond and the pomegranate. Just grows here a lot, that's all They are very hardy trees, requiring little water.

Offered by Sol.