Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

The why’s and how’s of raising figs. A piece I penned for the Spring 2016 issue of Pome News, the quarterly newsletter of the Home Orchard Society, discussing the fundamentals of fig cultivation in the PNW. m.facebook.com/notes/nick-routledge/the-whys-and-hows-of-raising-figs/1021770004573656/

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Quoted by@AlanEDown @BlackmoorFruit @GdnMediaGuild @frankpmatthews Alan, you’ll appreciate this, perhaps. But for a mediterranean 3-4 month summer drought - we irrigate - our growing conditions have likenesses. Summers have cool nights and are considered short. Winter conditions, wet, cold, similar: soil unfrozen, with occasional freezes.Quoted by@SaltedCarthage @sentantiq 2/ Homer tells of Ulysses' descent into the nether world where Tantalus was famishing: “Above, beneath, around his hapless head, Trees of all kinds delicious fruitage spread; There figs, sky-dyed, a purple hue disclose...” #NoClassicistShouldBeWithout! 😊