Polytunnel Arriving Monday - ground prep

[zazen999]

Don't forget that grapes thrive on really poor soil anyway.

[VirginVegGrower]

Yes but there's poor and there is dire. This is uncultivateable IMO but you could always come over and offer me your sage advice. I will offer coffee and muddy boots in return

[VirginVegGrower]

Our beds are 3 bricks high... we had an excess of used bricks (over 5000 of them....) so it seemed like the ideal thing to build from. They're not fixed together though, which means I can always move stuff around etc....

I had thought of making some parts a few bricks higher, so I could grow carrots in there....

Corr, I thought we had a lot

[binley100]

I've seen fig trees growing in ruined houses in greece ..........not much soil in there . They have tough roots and need keeping under control anyway ...

[veggiechicken]

Fig trees no problem in very little soil. Do not cosset it. Mine grows outside and has to be chopped back each year. It is a thug!!

[binley100]

I'm planning on planting mine in an old incinerator sunk in the ground ......

[veggiechicken]

My two are in a walled around bed, less than a foot wide and about 18" deep - maybe 5' long but there's aso a camellia hedge and lots of other smaller stuff in with it.

[taff]

have they much protection or have you got them growing on a trellis or something VC?
I have a tiny baby one that's just re-growing after it got an accidental shock ad I've been removing some of the flagstones from the front garden, and digging over the soil that's underneath. I need to put it somewhere along with the kiwi, and I was thinking there.

[VirginVegGrower]

I've got a fig outside which is restricted around its rootball. This is a white fleshed French variety - cant remember name - but it needs to come out of its pot as it lives in a corner of the greenhouse. I want it out

[veggiechicken]

have they much protection or have you got them growing on a trellis or something VC?
I have a tiny baby one that's just re-growing after it got an accidental shock ad I've been removing some of the flagstones from the front garden, and digging over the soil that's underneath. I need to put it somewhere along with the kiwi, and I was thinking there.

In the open, taff, backed by an open trellis fence between me and the neighbours in the front garden but not attached to the fence. They must be 8-10 feet high, I have to prune the top from the neighbours garden as they are several feet above mine. They're Brown Turkey, grown from cuttings several years ago and fruit prolifically

[chris]

I can confirm this isn't a tall tale either.. everytime I pop over I sneer at VC behind her back as I look at her fig trees!