In today’s 2 minute garden tip, I share a special fruit tree that can feed you for 5 months each year! I’m talking about the fig tree. Fig trees have an incredibly long harvest time. When selecting fig tree varieties, you can choose fig trees with harvest times that overlap into nearly half a year’s worth of harvesting food!
In this video, I provide a few examples of early season figs, mid-season figs and late season figs that can extend harvests for months. I also taste test five incredible fig varieties: Smith, Col de Dame Noir, Col de Dame Blanc, I-258 and Black Madeira! These are some of the best tasting figs in the world!
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super info
I already put in my order for my fig cuttings for winter. I've watched all your propagation videos multiple times! Are you going to be selling cuttings again this year?
What about hummingbirds and helping bees
When should you repot a fig tree?
Love figs 😋
Oh my! Those look delish!😋👍
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. This my first year growing figs. Two of my trees have figs, but they are still green. The only figs I can find locally in my area are Brown Turkey, Black Mission, and occasionally Olympian, so those are the 3 trees I have. Where do you buy your fig trees? Also, I will have to look to see if you have a video on how to overwinter fig trees in containers.
Great video. Please let us know how to care for my in ground Fig trees in preparing for the upcoming season. I am in Houston, TX and I don't have any fruits at the moment. Thanks
When is it time to prune fig trees? I’ve had one for 3 years and didn’t know I was supposed to until this year. Love your videos 😊
How cold-hardy are fig trees? I live in zone 5A – will any fig trees survive and thrive in my part of the upper Midwest?
my naughty labrador 1year old has a fig obsession like me!! She insists on eating all the leaves of all my5 fig trees
If you had to choose one, would you grow figs or persimmons? I really only have room for 1. Also, can you grow persimmons in a large container? Thanks.
Love this video. I only have 1 fig tree, so far. It was originally my grandmother's. I don't know what kind, but I've made many 'babies' from her tree over the years. She's been gone 37 years, but I'm still enjoying her delicious figs.
I have one question from this video:
When your figs are ripe and sweet, like those, how do you keep birds and squirrels from eating them? Once I had a lot ripening, I started seeing more and more (partially) eaten figs, when I went out each day to harvest them.
Thanks,
Christine
(NJ, 7a)
Look at all that virgin yard ready for a food forest!!
😂 I think you just really like figs! Pure joy on your face😂 I'm jealous. Too cold where I live but do love figs! I started splitting them open and putting chocolate inside.
We have a pig tree in our rooftop garden, and it bears many pigs throughout the seasons except winter and early spring. It still has some eatable pigs now.
I picked them up many times but never have I imagined to eat pigs with peels, cause I always unpeeled them before eating, so I never tasted the peel of pigs, anyway. Once you start to unpeel it, you can get your hands wet with sticky white juice from the pigs.
But anyway, when pigs are well nice ripen, it's usually the birds that taste the pigs first, usually a flock of pigeons came and pricked only a part of pigs and then abandoned it and moved on to another pigs and did the same thing again. This way they spoiled pigs well ripen.
That's why sometimes I must have had to pick them up before they became fully ripen to avoid bird's strike. That's how I should have some unripe pigs.
I wouldn't leave them for a while for making them ripen by natural time processing. Rather I would eat them all after picking up. So I usually unpeeled them and ate. And trust me, pigs even in unripe state, they taste real good, though a little bit less sweety but fresher and a bit harder, but the pulp is chewable.
So, too much well ripen bigger pigs are often out of reach, cause they are attracting many birds by their sweet fragrance. But even an unripe one is good and yummy.
Fig trees that are hardy here in NE Indiana grow huge. I don't want to bring them inside and only larger cultivars are hardy here. Wondering how to best negotiate spacing in a small yard with several trees already?
Will your trees in containers be planted into the ground eventually?
I have a Chicago Hardy that still have figs. Lots of them. Is covered up 2 times for the upcoming frost. Yes it is in the ground. Learned my lesson
Thanks for the education!