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Saturday, June 22. 2013

Spring planting: Figs

Our annual free ad for Miller Nurseries.


Yes, they do sell Brown Turkey Fig, which is readily grown in New England. They also have the Celeste Fig. 


In a tough winter, they will have to come back from the roots, but they usually do. Old-time Italians grow them in big pots, and drag them into the garage for the winter.


In the colder zones, grow them in a sheltered spot. My old fig finally succumbed to an especially cold winter, but I have a spot for a new one where I won't forget to keep it well-covered and mulched for winter.


Our kids loved to pick and chow down on hot, ripe figs out in the garden. And a big fig leaf is always useful for...summer clothing.

Posted by Bird Dog in Gardens, Plants, etc. at 12:50 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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I love figs; they taste like a lover's kiss.
#1 ahem on 2010-01-15 16:29 (Reply)
When you say "readily grown," do you mean over wintering or that they should be taken in? I'm considering making a tub of fig for my front porch ajd it could come in fairly easily but I'd like to know, eh?
#2 BlogDog (Link) on 2010-01-16 11:17 (Reply)
They need full sun.
They are fine in southern New england left outdoors if protected from the wind and mulched.
#2.1 bd on 2010-01-16 16:18 (Reply)
Here in the mid Hudson you need to take them in to get ripe fruit. We used to keep one in the garage all winter just to eat a few figs in Sept. I forget how but it eventually died. I'll have to ask the old time Greek I'm married to, lol.
#3 Linda s on 2013-06-22 13:55 (Reply)
There's an old story - it might have been Aristotle's poetics or Caesar's De Oratore - of a guy with a fig tree whose wife hung herself on its branches.

A passerby noticed it and asked if he might have a cutting of the tree.
#4 rhhardin (Link) on 2013-06-22 20:42 (Reply)
Cicero's
#4.1 rhhardin (Link) on 2013-06-22 21:31 (Reply)
There's a grand old fig tree in the courtyard of the library at Old St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lancaster, PA.

It is true. A fresh fig tastes just like a lover's kiss.
#5 Jewel (Link) on 2013-06-23 21:56 (Reply)
Heh.

Here in the middle east they grow in any old cleft in the rocks, and are easily dried in our long hot summers. I have a white fig that flourishes with no irrigation - and no rainfall for months.

Don't worry about soil depth or alkalinity of concrete foundations - plant them right up against south-facing walls in North America. Growing against a wall also makes a feature of the bare branches during the winter.

...Although if you are going to start pampering climate outliers, you would probably get more pleasure out of semi-hardy lemon or other citrus in barrels or tubs. Beautiful foliage, fragrant flowers, and fruit that you can pick as you need it.
#6 Ben David on 2013-06-25 15:45 (Reply)

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