My fence runs north to south and the pot is up against it facing east. It is sheltered and gets a lot of sun. I was amazed by how much water it needs. As it is a Mediterranean plant, I thought that it would be drought tolerant - shows you how much I know!. It will droop on a hot day so it gets extra water. I wouldn't put mine on the south side of our house as it gets extremely hot. We put ours in a sheltered spot for the winter when the leaves have dropped. I'm not sure if that's necessary. I'm no expert, but this has worked for me. We bought ours in Lidl about 4 years ago.
Ps I don't feed it much as I want to try and keep it a manageable size. I gave it a bit of toprose when I was doing the roses. I used it only because it was to hand.
When I was small we had two fig trees which grew on a metal frame to create a tunnel, it spanned the width of the garden and must have been many years old. I used to hunt down the ripening figs and tuck leaves around them to hide them from the grownups until they were ripe enough for me to pick and eat. That was in Guernsey not the UK.
That is how bad "fig fever" gets!
I am now in Cornwall and my none gardener neighbour has a large fig tree growing in a North facing corner. It cropped every year until 3 years ago when he cut it to the ground because they do not like figs to eat. It is now back to 15 ft tall with fruit on it, I want to pluck up the courage to ask them if I could have the fruit if they do not want them, I would love to try making fig preserves, something I have never tried. That is if the figs get to the pan before being eaten fresh, juice dribbling down ones chin etc. etc. Slurp!
Hello again all, just wanted to thank every one here for their help and I'm looking forward to "FIG FEVER"
I had a look at a couple of videos from Monty Don on Planting and pruning and if you haven't watched them it would like to share them with you guys. From what he was saying he has planted his Fig Trees on a SW wall so I've moved mine
Hi All, new here as need advice on my first Fig Tree and I'm not very green-fingered
From what I've read you should grow a fig tree on a south facing wall and currently it is on the South East wall but I've noticed that by around three in the afternoon the sun has moved past and casting a shadow over the fig tree. The South West wall still gets sun until sunset and this wall holds all the heat from the sun, so much so at night you can warm up with your back to the wall. The downside is that in winter the wind blows down our road and even covered I would worry the fig tree would suffer.
I don't wish to be moving it around the garden or move it inside but I would think getting the most sun and in the hottest part of the day would be better for the fig tree and would make the figs ripen.
Also any advice on watering/feeding the fig tree in a container, again from what I've read it needs to be watered often this time of year and needs feeding weekly with something like a seaweed fertiliser.
@Iamdavidgrant I would guess that at the time of your photo your fig would be about 1 year old. 4 years on now, I imagine it will have progressed quite a bit in size.
I have a couple that were recently put in to 10 litre buckets-they are about 2 years old now and doing very well. I removed the small figs from one of them, just to observe what difference in growth if any, between the two plants,The next container is very likely to be in to 'builder's buckets', I'm not as posh as you. 😃. They provide an appropriate increment. I do have some 30 litre tubs that will be utilised at some point.
I have several brown turkey figs in large pots and the one that fruited best this year is in a dark corner with no (filtered) sunlight until the afternoon. I put its success down to its feeding directly from one of the compost heaps and being out of the wind. Two of the other figs are east facing and have also produced good fruit and the one that ought to have done best, in the greenhouse and blessed with wind-free heat and sunshine, produced a mere two fruits but has put out huge leaves. They are tough plants and seem to thrive with a bit of summer warmth and decent plant food in the growing season. They get pruned brutally on a regular basis to keep them in check. The oldest has been in the same pot for a few years and I just top up the soil level in the spring. They are easy to propogate so you can always bring on a few young plants to replace anything that is getting a bit tatty.
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It is sheltered and gets a lot of sun. I was amazed by how much water it needs. As it is a Mediterranean plant, I thought that it would be drought tolerant - shows you how much I know!. It will droop on a hot day so it gets extra water.
I wouldn't put mine on the south side of our house as it gets extremely hot. We put ours in a sheltered spot for the winter when the leaves have dropped. I'm not sure if that's necessary.
I'm no expert, but this has worked for me.
We bought ours in Lidl about 4 years ago.
When I was small we had two fig trees which grew on a metal frame to create a tunnel, it spanned the width of the garden and must have been many years old. I used to hunt down the ripening figs and tuck leaves around them to hide them from the grownups until they were ripe enough for me to pick and eat. That was in Guernsey not the UK.
That is how bad "fig fever" gets!
I am now in Cornwall and my none gardener neighbour has a large fig tree growing in a North facing corner. It cropped every year until 3 years ago when he cut it to the ground because they do not like figs to eat. It is now back to 15 ft tall with fruit on it, I want to pluck up the courage to ask them if I could have the fruit if they do not want them, I would love to try making fig preserves, something I have never tried. That is if the figs get to the pan before being eaten fresh, juice dribbling down ones chin etc. etc. Slurp!
I had a look at a couple of videos from Monty Don on Planting and pruning and if you haven't watched them it would like to share them with you guys. From what he was saying he has planted his Fig Trees on a SW wall so I've moved mine
How To Plant A Fig Tree
Pruning A Wall Trained Fig Tree
Let me know what you think......
I would guess that at the time of your photo your fig would be about 1 year old. 4 years on now, I imagine it will have progressed quite a bit in size.
I have a couple that were recently put in to 10 litre buckets-they are about 2 years old now and doing very well. I removed the small figs from one of them, just to observe what difference in growth if any, between the two plants, The next container is very likely to be in to 'builder's buckets', I'm not as posh as you. 😃. They provide an appropriate increment. I do have some 30 litre tubs that will be utilised at some point.