I bought a half wine barrel (they are great planter boxes for the price) and filled it with a mix of four 30-litre bags of potting mix, one bag of sheep manure and two peat moss bricks which I had dissolved in water. I mixed all this, planted the stick and nothing happened until the end of October.
But then it woke up and once awake it grew like mad. Now (see photo) it is one and a half metre high, has ten side branches and more than a dozen little figs. It's like a weed!
I am so glad I took on board the advice from one of our Food Garden Group members to plant it in a pot, because this will put limits on how tall and wide it will become.
Her fig is now 4 years old and it is 4 metres high and 4 metres wide.
My garden is not big enough to let that happen!
There is plenty to learn about figs and I may blog again about figs at some point in the future.
Figs are a great addition to your garden and your menu, but, if you decide to buy one this coming winter, put it in a wine barrel, not in the ground.
I have about 8 figs in large decor self watering pots in alpine vic. They sit on the north side of our colorbond shed and seem to get enough heat and sun to produce our first figs this season. They overwinter in a small unheated greenhouse. 4 of them were salvaged from frost burned stumps from planting them in the ground. Since moving them to pots and in this sheltered area we haven’t looked back!
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