HeyJaredFig Culture: Helping You Grow a Fig Tree in a Cold Climate
Want to grow figs but live somewhere with cold winters? Our passion is growing figs in cold climates.We help cold-climate fig lovers grow a fig tree in a pot, grow figs in the ground, and, most importantly, conquer winter. There are many ways of growing figs in cold climates.
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Bob Duncan: “Let’s Try It” (opens the original)
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Get more fig-growing ideas between episodes. Sign up for the free Fig Culture newsletter for practical tips, seasonal notes, and news of upcoming fig events. -- Bob Duncan showed Canadian gardeners that the line between possible and impossible isn’t always where we think it is. At Fruit Trees and More, the nursery and demonstration orchard he ran with his wife, Verna, on Vancouver Island, Bob grew figs, lemons, olives, yuzu, loquats, feijoas and many other fruits that gardeners might not expect
Overwintering In-Ground Fig Trees with a Heat Tube (opens the original)
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Get more fig-growing ideas between episodes. Sign up for the free Fig Culture newsletter for practical tips, seasonal notes, and news of upcoming fig events. -- Will Pananes grows large fig trees in the ground in south-central Pennsylvania—USDA Zone 6b, where unprotected fig trees can freeze back to the ground. His solution is a homemade heat tube: an incandescent light bulb enclosed in metal pipe and placed inside the tree’s winter wrapping. The small amount of supplemental heat protects the tr
The Fig Tree Beyond the Fruit (opens the original)
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The revised fig book is now on Kickstarter The special hardcover edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t and registration for the October 15 and 22 Fig Camp are available now. A lower-priced softcover will follow this fall. See the book and Fig Camp options. --- Most fig growers are focused on the fruit. Fair enough. But in this episode, we look at the rest of the fig tree: the leaves, sap, dried leaves, infused vinegars, tinctures, pantry blends, and even prunings. Steven talks with Pene
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