Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: iggyboy60 on February 20, 2011, 19:38
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Hi all,I have two fig trees which are about to start their second season with me and I'm sure they are no more than 3yrs old. I have them in pots at the moment as I was told to keep the roots restricted so as to encourage fruiting. My question is, what is the correct type of growing medium needed? Do they prefare acidic soil like a lot of other fruits do? And am I right to keep the figs in pots or would they be better off in the ground. The beauty of the figs being in pots meant I had no problem in putting them in my polytunnel to over-winter...again,have I done the right thing by keeping the figs in the polytunnel to over-winter or would they be better off left outside? Thanks for any advice :)
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I bought 2 fig trees ("Brown Turkey")several years ago now and kept them both in pots like you but i became sick of moving the pots around so ended up planting them at the top of my plot which is south facing and they seem to thrive.
I incorporated some well rotted manure into the holes before planting and hoped for the best. I had a good year last year having lots of figs :)
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cheers mate! I'm losing the plot as I already asked about figs on here no so long ago...feel a bit daft now. Doh :wacko:
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cheers mate! I'm losing the plot as I already asked about figs on here no so long ago...feel a bit daft now. Doh :wacko:
No need, that's what the forums are for ;)
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Restricting the roots is supposed to improve fruiting, so if you want to put the figs out in the ground, you could edge the planting hole with concrete slabs.
I don't think they're overly fussy about soil. Ours is alkaline and they crop pretty well. You do need to be careful about overwintering them. They are OK down to about -7 degC apparently, but we have lower temps than that in winter and haven't lost ours yet.