How does your garden grow?

[SteamyTea]

16 hours ago, marshian said:

Put it in the ground and put the root ball in a stainless steel washing machine drum

If you plant two like that, you can hang a washing line between them.

[saveasteading]

6 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

plant two like that,

The easiest tree to grow from a branch or root cutting. 

[marshian]

1 hour ago, saveasteading said:

The easiest tree to grow from a branch or root cutting. 

 

Don't even bother to try

 

Stick a low branch end into a pot - it will root itself - once rooted cut the umbilical cord so to speak and you have a new fig tree to pass on to someone else - done about 10 so far!!!

[SteamyTea]

5 hours ago, saveasteading said:

The easiest tree to grow from a branch or root cutting. 

 

4 hours ago, marshian said:

Stick a low branch end into a pot - it will root itself

There is a fig tree in Moron Gardens that I always admire, thought about pinching a fruit and seeing if it grows in a pot.

How long a cutting would I need to take to get a successful cutting?

[saveasteading]

9 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

How long a cutting would I need to take to get a successful cutting?

i used about 300mm., mostly in the ground.

i know that @marshian's will work too because I have great success with brambles  spreading thus.

Good idea actually and i do it with rosemary: just lay a branch on the ground with a brick on it.  slightly snapping the branch seems to help too.

not so convenient if pinching a bit from elsewhere.