gcarrier, Can't send you any emails, its not activated on your profile. I am sure we might run to each other. JR has some other good varieties like, LSU Yellow (he calls it Brandy), Flanders, Cajun Honey, and Sct's blk for sale (plus many more). All those varities suppossed to be very sweet, you might want to consider those too. Also, Dalton told me that he would sell the Smith's he has for the full price of $20.00. He mentioned they have their own roots. Let me know if you have other questions.

White Triana is a good fig to get but there are several types of Paradiso. The one from Joe is OK so far but it is only in it 2nd season. I'll give it at least another 2 years. As far as protection, you'll be better served to put in pots and store in a cool place during winter. If you want to plant in-ground, wait until tree is a bit more mature-say 3 to 5 yrs old. After that be prepared to do some work as far as protecting in-ground- whether being buried by dirt or cut down for winter and covered with tarps, insulation, and/or leaves.

Most, if not all, of your cuttings may become avaiable from encontofarms on or soon after February 1. Just watch and check this site at that time (pick and paste): http://encantofarms.com/Available_Cuttings_2011.html

HJ, sure wish you all could overturn their plans. I'm thinking Bruce is going to set 4/23 as SF. In that case I think I'll wait another week to start my tomatoes! I'm feeling downright cavalier about starting them so late. Yay! I ordered color-coded plant labels this year. Kind of a waste of money when I usually use vinyl venetian blinds. But Walmart didn't have the short cheap $5 ones, and they were much more expensive online. So I splurged. 8 different colors and a Staedtler marking pen. I had 3 varieties of peppers that didn't germinate. Wacky and one of them was Ashe County--so am going to try it again. I'm sitting on the deck potting up peppers at the moment. These Numex Centennial ones germinated so successfully I'll have extras if anyone wants one. https://victorygardeners.com/product/numex-centennial-pepper/ Know exactly what you mean about the "end-of-winter" look, HJ. And I haven't touched any of the plant/flower beds, "leaving the leaves," ya know. Not planning to touch it for another few weeks. UGLY beiges and browns. Reminds me of driving from MN to WY several years ago, in March. There wasn't any snow on the ground. I said it was just one big brown blob, all the way across South Dakota, even the cows were all brown. Well, back to transplanting.