I just got a catalog from One Green World. Of course I'm enthralled.
I've been planning on planting figs this coming spring. I had picked out Brown Turkey and then wanted to try a second variety to be named later (when I got to the plant nursery). Bob Wells Nursery is about an hour away and I thought I'd go there for my fig trees. Now, of course, I'm finding other varieties in the One Green World catalog. Is there much of a differrence between Vern's Brown Turkey and Brown Turkey? Also Black Mission and Black Spanish? Good taste and good production is necessary. The good taste is for me and the good production is just in case the local coyotes get brave and decide to get into my figs (the way they did with my watermelons).
I realize that Bob Wells' is in Texas and OGW is in the Northwest, but figs do well in Texas I'm told.
So which would you choose?
I have a fig question
I have a Brown Turkey and they are the old standard around here. They're very sweet and bear heavily if they get enough food and water. They need rich moist soil but can't stand wet soil. There's one called TX Everbearing that some sites say is the same thing.
You might want to post on the fruit and nut forum because there are several fig experts over there.
We ordered four fig trees this spring, but we were looking for cold-hardy varieties because we do get frosts and snow. We have some fig trees of unknown cultivars but often they die back down completely over the winter. For our new trees we settled on Celeste, Hardy Chicago, Marseilles, and Madeleine de Deux Saisons. The nursery sent us Violet de Bordeaux by mistake instead of Madeleine, so they let us keep that one and shipped the one we wanted as well. Violet de Bordeaux (also called Negronne) is less cold-hardy so she's planted up against my studio, on the south wall. We are also going to put up a barrier behind the other plantings.
You are so lucky; they should do beautifully in your zone. We enjoyed being able to pick them off the trees and eat them in October in the south of France and would love to replicate that here!
greenhouse_gal, that is exactly what I have in mind! Thanks for your reply.
twiggybuds, I will copy this to the fruit and nut forum. I didn't even think of them! Thanks.