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“small fig” with a black, fine point Sharpie.
He finishes the job with a thick coat of mulch over the hole.
“Now they’re nice and insulated from the winter cold,” says Crafts, squinting into the mid-morning sun. “You don’t have to do anything else until April 1.”
He repeats the process in an adjacent hole, using branches bound in deep blue surveyor’s tape with “big tree” written across it.
Next April, Crafts will remove the two clusters and plant the branches, tips up, in the ground or in pots in a mixture of Perlite (25 per.. cent), Vermiculite (25 percent)'and peat moss (50 percent) and water as needed.
The tape designations (“small fig” and “big fig”) refer to. clippings from “grandpa’s* fig trees, a pair that he planted in 1996 when he and Roseann moved to Fauquier.
He began cultivating fig trees about 19 years ago when the couple lived near Harper’s Ferry.
Crafts now employs four methods. “I’ve seen some level of success” with all of them, he said.
Each method typically produces at least one tree per year. (To learn about throe other techniques Crafts uses go to www.fauquier.com).
He has 13 fig trees — 10
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