Fig.

Has anybody grown these? I have acquired some cuttings from a fig tree and have potted them up but would like to hear from anyone with a bit of experience of them. Do they winter well? What food should I give them.
Yep! A complete newby to fig growing!

 

I had one in a large pot for several years, but it died in that -17c we had a couple of years ago.

 

Yes, I'm not surprised. I think I lost about a third of my garden back then.
These cuttings are from a great big tree though. I'm wandering if I should put them directly into the ground once they have rooted up? Might be a bit difficult controlling them though.

 

In the old walled gardens they used to put a paving slab 2 foot underneath the Fig trees to reduce the vigour. They also chose a south facing wall.

Think there might be a Victorian Kitchen Garden episode about them in our media section.

 

Thank you. I'll go and have a look. The paving slab sounds like a good idea.

Oh. It seems that the Victorian Kitchen Garden no longer plays.

 

I've got a fig which my brother-in-law took as a cutting about 6 years ago. The first two years it was in a pot, and produced a couple of figs. Then we planted it out into the garden where it didn't produce anything, I suspect due to not getting enough sun. The winter before last we moved it to a sunnier spot, and it didn't produce fruit last year either, probably due to being moved. We'll see what happens this year! We've restricted its roots with paving slabs, by the way which is supposed to result in more fruit. It's survived successive winters of snow, frost and temperatures which went down to -10ºc for two weeks one year.
There are lots of fig trees in the village where my in-laws have a house, a bit further south from us and they're just growing wild, no-one feeds them or looks after them and they produce enormous amounts of fruit every year.

 

I thought they restricted them further Zigs and planted them in a "cube box" made from paving slabs?

 

I've got a couple on the allotment, good old "brown Turkey", I just planted them out as a normal tree with no root restriction.
I only get the one crop of fruit each year.
But as I find them very sweet and insipid I'm not that bothered really.

Nice tropical looking tree though.