Fruits and Nuts: Just placed my order for new fruit trees!, 0 by pbyrley

pbyrley wrote:
Indy, I'll try it!
I have plenty of woods behind my house. I wonder if I will bring in a bunch of ticks in with the woods soil? I doubt I can dig 4" into the soil (too many rocks) so maybe just 1" past the leaves will have to do.

Jujube,
a side sprout from my black mission has been growing well out in the yard, away from the house. As I said above, we had 3 nights at 15 deg. Hardened the figs off pretty well. The new black mission is 5' high (grown from 1' last Jan when I cut it loose from the big tree and moved it). We (my dog & I) had about 6 figs from it last summer - yummm. I never am quite sure what to expect.

The photo is of the "grandmother" of the new black mission tree. Note the date. It grew in another NC town, near Charlotte

This message was edited Jan 18, 2011 8:41 PM