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Hi! These fig trees are around 30 years old. Does anyone have any tips on how I’d wrap this in the winter (zone 7A NJ)? Last year I cut it down and made the mistake of wrapping it with plastic and some burlap since I had nothing else and even though I knew better I thought it was better than nothing.. well it wasn’t and lot of the branches died so I cut them all off and it came back but even more wild. The way this fig tree grows is odd. It’s 3 trees lumped in the same area with crazy amounts of branches off of each and some grow down, on the ground some grow crooked even by cutting them back I couldn’t possibly wrap them all properly by the way the actually grow from the base which seems to have many trunks. Do I have to cut it completely to start training it to grow properly? The first few years we had hundreds of figs per season and this year we’ve had a smaller but decent amount even from the new branches that grew after I pruned a large amount and dead branches. I don’t want to ruin these trees any tips will help 😂 thank you!

Water in the basement question! Each time it rains hard part of our basement that has concrete walls has water just pouring through it. Then there is what looks to be an about one inch gap between the walls and the flooring going straight down into the ground and once that all fills up with water it spills over onto the partial basement floor which is also just an old painted concrete slab and floods (we aren’t in a floor zone either). This is only in half of the basement that has the concrete portion. Anyone have any advice or who we would even reach out to in order to have this checked out? Would waterproof paint even slightly stop the flow of water coming in from the heavy rain? It’s been brutal constantly cleaning the water from the heavy rains.

Hi all! We have a puppy that pees on the backyard grass and a big chunk of the lawn looks like this where she goes. Would hosing it all off each time she goes do anything? I know the obvious answer is just not to let her go on the grass to pee but that’s not an option as we are outside in the yard majority of the a day now that it’s nice weather in NJ. Any tips to combat this or out of luck and just reseed the chunks each year? 🤣