Topic: Figs

[Nadia]

How to keep figs and how to prune a fig tree
Nadia

[donlottie]

Keep in a pot NEVER in the ground. Their roots go for miles and can break through pipes!!!

Always keep well watered and feed well in summer.

Prune to 5 leaves above fruit. Any fruit larger than a pea should be pulled off as these will not ripen. All ones smaller than pea size will ripen next year.

Lost mine last year :( :(

[PAULW]

I keep mine in a 20 litre pot sunk in the ground against a south facing wall, pruning: all I did was to snap off the new growth above the fruit this year to stop it getting to big, feed in the spring with sulphate of potash then again as the fruit start to swell a bit of growmore now and again won't go amiss.

PS MY FIG IS STILL ALIVE ;D

[Nadia]

Thanks for the advice.  My fig tree has increased in size reaching 2 neighbours' fences.  It is in a pot.

How to keep the fruit?  I had so many this year and gave away a big number and still lost others.

Regards
Nadia

[PAULW]

NADIA
I had about twenty fruits off mine this year and kept most of them in my tummy lol

[Baccy Man]

There is some good information on growing figs here http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/fig.html & here http://www.paradisenursery.com/figgrowingtips.html

Recipes & drying instructions here http://www.paradisenursery.com/figrecipes.html

[antipodes]

FIGS!!!! yumyum yum
I have a friend with a fig tree and she has told me lots about using them.
Jam
freeze them and use them in pies or for cooking (roast pork with figs and onions and a glass of white wine cooked in the roasting pan, delicious) - apple and fig crumble!
She also makes a liqueur - she soaks them in alcohol (eau de vie) for a month then strains them and adds sugar syrup to taste. She did a fig and walnut one last time i was there and it was divine.
she doesn't dry them though, she has a green variety (called peasant figs here) that don't keep well. But ripe and fresh they are exceptional.
enjoy them!

[Nadia]

Thank you very much for the advice, I appreciated.

Best wishes
Nadia