Extending Fall Fig Harvest

Written By Steven Biggs

Extend fall fig harvest with a plastic tunnel or greenhosueFIG GROWERS IN TEMPERATE CLIMATES know that lots of the figs on their plants won’t ripen before the first fall frost causes the plant to go dormant. Such a waste!!

Some fig lovers protect fig plants from fall frost to allow more fruit to ripen before the tree goes into dormancy.

An unheated plastic greenhouse or tunnel can raise the air temperature considerably—delaying dormancy, and ripening more figs. Yum!

 

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About the Author – Steven Biggs

Figs in Canada? Sure. Steven Biggs is a cold-climate fig expert, horticulturist, and former college instructor. He is the author of the award-winning book Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t. In his work as a horticultural journalist and podcaster, he interviews other cold-climate fig growers. He’s been pounding the fig beat with workshops and interviews about growing figs in cold climates since 2011. But it all started in 1993, while working (and eating figs!) at a nursery with the UK National Collection of figs. If he’s not taking care of his fig trees, you’ll catch him recording the Fig Culture podcast, writing gardening books and articles about pushing zone boundaries, and teaching online classes about figs and other exotic crops for home gardeners.


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