Fig Fanatics

Talk to five northern fig fanatics and you'll probably hear five different overwintering tactics. There's no single "right" way.

Click here to check out Doug Oster's story of two fig fanatics: a Penn State master gardener, and me.

Doug is Home and Garden editor for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and an Emmy Award winning producer, television host and writer

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Steven Biggs - Fig Expert

Recognized by Garden Making Magazine as one of the "green gang" of Canadians making a difference in horticulture, Steven Biggs is a University of Guelph-trained horticulturist, former college instructor, and award-winning broadcaster and author.

He has been teaching gardeners how to grow figs in cold climates since 2011. But his interest in figs took off in 1993, while working at a nursery with the UK National Collection of figs.

He’s the author of the first book about growing figs in cold climates, the award-winning Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t. His articles about growing figs have appeared in Fine Gardening, Garden Making, and Edible Toronto.

When not in the garden, you might catch him interviewing fig experts for his Fig Culture podcast.

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