Does anyone in zone 7 grow figs. I love them, and thought of maybe trying some here.
We are in Middle Tennessee..
Thanks,
Carolyn
Figs in zone 7
I would like one.
This message was edited Aug 2, 2008 9:00 AM
Yeap, you can have them and you cover the plant in the winter!!!!! I love figs!
I'll post a pix of my tree tomorrow, it is too late now, after midnight!!! Clem
I have had "Brown Turkey" in the ground for 25 years. Only one year did it not completely die back over winter. It always produces figs here by late August but I suspect with a better (more sun) location I would do better. I also grow Brown Turkey in containers and am eating figs in July. In Winter I keep them (quite leafless) in the garage along with lots of other dormant tropicals. This year I'm also growing "Italian Honey" in a big pot (an excellent fruit producer - I have had figs for breakfast since late July and it's a young plant), Excel (just a first year division), and "Petite Negra" which is also just starting to produce.
I remember my grandfather growing figs in the ground in upstate New York (Zone 5). He (and many other Italian immigrants) went to extraordinary measures to grow figs. He dug a trench along the row of figs and heeled them into it covering them with insulation of varying kinds. It's a tradition I'm passing along to all my offspring.
Dave
I live in Tidewater Virginia, about Zone 7a. Would it be a good practice to cut my figs back to the ground over the winter, and let them grow new stalks each year? I have been letting them grow as they will, and I get large branches which just bend and break in the heavy winds and rain we get at some times of the year.
Chris Kn
Chris, I have not tried cutting them back to the ground, BUT, would be scared, then I would not have any figs???????????? I really need to take a pic of mine, here on long Island, everyone grows them. I got mine from a Croatian man and the figs are delicious!
Ok finally I remember to post my figs, here it is
This one is ripe and delicious! This fig tree was given to me by a Croatian man, I have it against the house and cover it with burlap in the winter, although the last winter, the wind blew the cover and it spent the rest of the season without anything, go figure, it survived! and the figs are so sweet!
The birds get mine before I can. Blueberries too.
The birds don't get mine, is the ants, they eat everything inside and out!
I moved from Suffolk Co. in '83 and don't remember ants being so bad. Maybe they have gotten worse since. Now Florida, this is where I know they are all coming from. You can't stand still without getting bit.
I do not have a bad problem with ants, but somehow they found my fig and I am so sad
Clemen..if the ants are climbing the stalks of the figs you can get a product for trees called tanglefoot. It is a sticky glue like stuff you can spread on the bottom of the branches. It won't hurt your fig tree, but will keep the ants off.
Dave..what size pot do you keep your "honey" in?
Thanks Louise, will look in to that!