Hi Ralph Some trees give a couple of fruits the first year. However, if your trees were reluctant last year, you should see some this year and for sure a lot more next year if all ambients are normal. Fertlize, if you have to, after the plants start showing active growth wether Miracle-Grow or other. I have seen other mentioning MiracleGrow use for figs. Fertilize only when the soil is moist. If the soil is not moist, pre-moist the soil by watering first and then fertilize. Frequency of fertilizing depend on your soil really. Some people with ground planted figs do not fertlilize unless sandy soil where the nutrients leach away with fast flow of water.

Nice to hear from you fig diva. If I were a betting man I would say that that off the top of my head: 1. Fioroni De Reuvo - from Italy, supposedly a good breba cropper, not sure on the main crop. 2. Rancon or Trancona - from Spain, supposedly a fig tree that is in danger of being extinct from development. It has a whitish or light pink color. I have heard about this tree from various sources. 3. Zucchini Fig - Zuchinni green and long style looking figs from breba crop. Green/brown main cropper. 4. Vasilika Sika - Greek fig from belleclares, NY nursery, main crop fig, dark green outside, blood red inside. Regards.

A couple of thoughts... First, I would have no hesitation in going with silk or something fancier. It sounds like that will go with your eventual furnishing plans, and it is way easier to dress down silk than it is to dress up something more casual in the event that you later get dressy furniture. In fact, it looks like your first choice panel was a little fancier. Second, If you're doing the side-by-sides AND the four(?) single windows, you're going to have a lot of patches of this fabric around the room. I would therefore be inclined not to break the bigger set into patches as well, but stack them at either end of the stretch of windows. But if you are doing this on a single long rod, that will be something you can play with. Third, about where and how to find what you want. It sounds like so far you have two options on the table, either ready-to-hang, or going through a designer. It may be different around here (heck, I'm not even in the same country), but here there are a lot of independent drapery shops that don't bill themselves as "designers". I wonder if you could find one of those. show them the photo of the JCP panels you liked, and see if they can find you a similar fabric and make them to specification? We also have a decorator fabric store (a chain of three actually) where you wander in, pick your fabric, and they can make them up for you or you can just buy the fabric. Even our normal fabric stores around here have drapery sections... in other words, if you look for the fabric separately, you might have better luck than if you shop for finished panels. Finally, have you tried to actually call JCP, including their stores, to physically hunt down and flush out the last of those panels you like? I know this sounds a little obsessive (admittedly, I am) but I'd bet that several of their stores have one or two of them in remainder bins around the country, or that the warehouse has some somewhere. Worth pushing a little if you haven't already done so. But you do need a lot of them, and that might be hard to take to completion. Good luck! KarinL Here is a link that might be useful: Arlene's (aka fabric heaven)

Janna I have a very productive fig tree and I keep it trimmed so I can harvest the fruit. I grow it as a bush and right now I am getting another crop of figs, hopefully they ripe before the cold comes in. If not is okay since I dried and freeze the fruit from last season. I trimmed the fig anytime that it needs it, of course not when is fruiting, otherwise I would loose the fruit on the pruned branches. If planted in the right spot and using a lot of organic material, figs are indestructible and very productive but if not they can be susceptible to nematode damage. My fig just now