Growing Figs: Re: Canadian Figs

» PaulandInese - Re: Canadian Figs

In response to your question, it would depend on where you live. For example, southern Ontario has many ethnic home gardeners that either grow them in containers and bring them into shelter for the winter or in the ground and shelter them by various techniques such as insulating them or burring them underground. If you live in zone 5 or better you should have no problem finding them in your local garden shops or neighbors. I personally keep mine in 20 gallon containers and have different varieties, such as green, yellow, brown, pink centers, yellow centers, red centers, early ones, and those that provide two crops per season, long ones, round ones, big, medium and small. They are very easy to grow and with variety there is never a disappointing year. They are very easy to start from cuttings or even from shoots that grow close to the mother plant. If the growing season is too short for certain types, you will find that they will continue to ripen in your garage even up until Christmas but most is you have a long growing season will he harvested before you allow them to go dormant.

-- posted by PaulandInese