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Where I grew up (41.3 deg N, on the Atlantic coast) I was always amazed by our neighbor, who would bury his ~15 foot tall fig tree every year to protect it from
by georgeoliver 7y ago
Where I grew up (41.3 deg N, on the Atlantic coast) I was always amazed by our neighbor, who would bury his ~15 foot tall fig tree every year to protect it from freezing. For some reason in my child mind it seemed to defy the laws of nature, though of course it was quite the opposite!
- andys627 7y agoThe whole thing?
- georgeoliver 7y agoYes, he would tie it down and create a kind of berm along its length.
- youeseh 7y agoHow did he exhume it in the Spring?
- brohee 7y agohttps://www.instructables.com/id/Un-Bury-a-Fig-Tree/ https://www.instructables.com/id/Un-Bury-a-Fig-Tree/
- DeathArrow 7y agoWhere I live in Eastern Europe (44°26′7″), we have acclimatized fig trees. And we have temperatures as low as -20C or even -25C (-4 and -13 Fahrenheit).
- georgeoliver 7y agoMy parents who still live in the same house do have a small fig tree they don't bury, and my mother's parents a hundred miles south had a larger one in their backyard. I don't know if burying fig trees in that climate is necessary to be honest, maybe it was just a practice my neighbor brought with him (he was Italian as well).
- bregma 7y agoWhen I lived in Toronto, my next door neighbour Luigi did that with a fig tree he had brought with him from his native Sicily some decades ago. Every year it bore a couple dozen figs for him. The whole family was a living stereotype in pretty much every way, but his gardening technique definitely bore fruit.
- AareyBaba 7y agoI couldn't visualize how this works so had to look it up https://www.instructables.com/id/Bury-a-Fig-Tree/ https://www.instructables.com/id/Bury-a-Fig-Tree/