Figs aren’t native to this area — at least they never used to be. Who knows though, with the way temperatures are rising, we may be eating these fresh fruits year round before you know it.
Ontario Fig - Not Yet Ready, originally uploaded by frigante.
I had a neighbour with a fig tree once. Every summer they pulled it outside on a rolling stand. In the fall they pushed it back into the house. Seems like a lot of work to me, but if you’re the one who gets to eat the juicy fig, maybe it’s worth it.
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1 Peter Caira // Sep 5, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Hey, thanks for using my photo in your blog! I took these fig-photos in my mom’s back yard garden in the west-side “Bridgeview” neighbourhood of Windsor.
Unlike your neighbour, my mom’s fig trees are planted in the garden rather than in a container and instead of moving them indoors, the popular “burial” method is used to keep them alive during the winter months. The entire tree is bent towards the ground, wrapped in poly and insulated with old leaves and such, then buried under more leaves and soil.
The fig in the above photo grows on a tree grown from a sapling which originally came from Italy and is now about 20 years old. It’s worth noting that these are white figs which grow bigger (and maybe even sweeter) than their red counterparts.
I’ve heard of Italian green-thumbs doing this as far north as Sudbury and Montreal, but I doubt their fruit is as sweet as these, grown under the slightly brighter, warmer and longer-lasting Essex County sun!
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