Fig Tree Winter Protection with Ross Raddi

Interview
Written By Steven Biggs - Fig Expert

Here’s a chat I had with fig expert Ross Raddi about figs in cold climates.

Ross is an innovative fig grower in PA who shares his fig adventures on his YouTube channel and on his website.

We chat about:

  • How I got into growing figs in a cold climate

  • My fig mentor

  • Protecting fig trees for winter

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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 much earlier, 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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