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Ga Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Karen
Meansville
Ga.
USA
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 Posted - Mar 10 2010 : 7:04:29 PM
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Just wanted to pass on a little tid-bit a elderly lady told me about fig trees. She has a huge tree growing right outside her door and I questioned her as to how her fig tree had gotten so big her answer was.... carrot juice. She blends up carrots in the blender and pours the juice on the roots. So guess what the first tree I'd like to purchase for the new house? Yep you guessed it a fig! Blessings,Karen
Create in me a pure heart,O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms 51:10
Farmgirl sister #1156
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Mar 10 2010 : 7:29:44 PM
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Hey Karen. I love fig trees. And figs, too. When we bought this place there was an old fig tree out by the well house. It never got any sun because of a very big hachberry tree. Well, the tree was cut down last fall and they also cut the fig tree, too! I didn't know they did that til later. I hope it comes back now. I'll have to try the carrot juice. Thanks.
This also reminds me of a story about a lady's lilac buch at her back door. It was huge and someone asked her how it got so big. She said she threw her dish water out on it every day.
Glad to see you back on! I hope you get a few fig trees for your new home.
Kris
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cajungal
True Blue Farmgirl
2349 Posts
Catherine Farmgirl Sister #76
Houston Area
Texas
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Posted - Mar 11 2010 : 05:30:46 AM
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My mom has 2 huge fig trees. If I had the $, I'd build a big screened cover over them because by the time the squirrels, birds and deer are done there's hardly a handful left.
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Karrieann
True Blue Farmgirl
1900 Posts
Karrieann
Northeast
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Mar 11 2010 : 06:52:34 AM
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Kristin... It will grow back... like gang busters! When we bought this home of ours, it came with 8 fig bushes/ trees. I keep cutting some down and they'reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee back again and again and again.
An old lady told me about dumping her coffee grounds on her lilacs to make them big!
Karrieann ~ Farmgirl Sister #766 (29 Sept 2009)
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nitere
True Blue Farmgirl
482 Posts
Amy
Hickory
NC
USA
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vegetarian farmer
True Blue Farmgirl
249 Posts
Jane
Freedom
pa
USA
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Posted - Mar 11 2010 : 08:36:23 AM
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I am so jealous of you southern girls and your fig trees. There is one type of fig I can grow here but I understand that taking care of it is like taking care of a child. Fall and winter require very special wrapping, trimming, packing. It seems like a lot for a handful of figs five years from now.
Jane
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Mar 11 2010 : 10:15:04 AM
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Kerrieann, I just went out there and looked at it. They cut it down to the ground. And I also let the goats out in the back yard. They may be having a salad on the way by because there ain't nothin' on that brown wood. But it may still be early for it, too. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Kris
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Karrieann
True Blue Farmgirl
1900 Posts
Karrieann
Northeast
Georgia
USA
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Mar 12 2010 : 6:41:49 PM
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Oh Karen,
I sooo miss my fig tree that I grew from a little seedling that came up errent in our yard..., I keep it in a pot till we moved to Moorpark, CA...and once it was a few feet tall I planted it in our front yard, by the time we moved (10years later) it was about 8'tall and producing figs like crazy.
It was the smooth trunk tree w/purple figs...I have an uncle in Biola (near Fresno) Calif...and he has a small orchard of old figs (both smooth and bumpy type trunks)& pomagranets...neither my uncle nor I ever fussed over our trees, just watered them & enjoyed the fruit. I wonder what it is about the carrots that give the fig tree of your elderly neighbor...sounds interesting and certainly worth a try.
Unfortunately Fig trees won't grow up here...bummer!
p.s. as a kid on my uncles farm, us kids would pick the figs, & use the sticky milk to write on our skin...who knows why, we were just goofey kids and did silly things....lol!
Thanx for sharing the tid bit with us.
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
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