How to Grow Figs

Growing Your Own Figs - Richters Herbs lecture:



As Steven Biggs puts it, "Growing figs shouldn't seem exotic; it should be straight forward stuff!" Indeed, a growing coterie of gardeners across Canada and the United States are mastering the art of growing figs in our temperate climate. Yes, figs suffer from the cold but there are ways to counter the cold as Steven will show. The Toronto-based journalist can fairly be called Ontario's chief advocate for growing figs, as he has written and spoken extensively on the joys of fig culture. He even learned some Portuguese so a Portuguese-Canadian friend would share his secrets on growing figs. Steven is an award winning journalist and garden writer specializing in gardening, farming, and food production. He is co-author of "No Guff Vegetable Gardening", and is a contributing editor for "Country Guide". His latest book is "Grow Figs Where You Think You Can't". Steven has a Bachelor of Science in agriculture with a major in horticultural science. This is a recording of a presentation given at Richters Herbs on April 21, 2013.

How to prune figs in South Florida:



How to propagate fig trees from cuttings - from Peppe's fruit tree nursery in Davie, Florida:



Videos:

How to Grow Fig Trees - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoEA6
HOW TO GROW FIGS IN A CONTAINER OR POT - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoJUd
Growing the Brown Turkey Fig Tree - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWoN6F
Rooting Figs Pepe Video 2013 - YouTube http://bit.ly/1xWpjRY

Related reading:

http://www.pepesplants.com/fig-trees.html
http://www.raysfigs.com/faq.html
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/fig.html
How to grow figs, with lee reich - A Way To Garden http://buff.ly/1JoUON9