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valerierobertsvalerieroberts Posts: 726
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Has anyone found a good way of using the numerous small figs, that are left after the main crop has been harvested, that will not overwinter.

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  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    It all depends on how big they are. If they are very small or very unripe you are wasting time and ingredients. Mostly, they are best removed and thrown away or put on the compost.
  • valerierobertsvalerieroberts Posts: 726
    Thanks Joe and Welsh onion, so many that I think it's a pickle job. Have harvested plenty of garlic and chillies . Going to buy ginger root and use the medium size figs with this as a carrier. May th,ink up some other spices to put with them. It's an adventure if good ok but if .not never to be repeated.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    When I get finished making tomato sauce I'm going to try this

    http://brightdinnerdelights.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/green-pickled-figs.html

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • mandy shortmandy short Posts: 1

    hi every one can i ask a bit of Advise .i have tree figs on my little tree which ive had

    for a year my question is please when do i pick them and what should i do with the

    green ones that wont ripen now also do i bring the tree in or leave it outside 

    thank you x

  • valerierobertsvalerieroberts Posts: 726
    Dear Dove, so am I as soon as it's the last day of autumn.

    dear Mandy, if you go to the recipe above it says the last day of autumn for picking the small unripe fruit. I leave the smallest fruit on the tree, the ones as small as a pea for they will overwinter and give nExt years fruit. You say about a pot grown fig I think. If you brought it into warmth, somewhere light and warm say kitchen near a window would you manage to get the fruit to keep growing to full size. In malta they get two crops a year. It's warm. But there is a cultivar I believe that is advertised as getting a second crop which sounds good to me. I live South devon so my fig is in the ground outside. Different locations and cultivars may not survive it depends where you are.
  • valerierobertsvalerieroberts Posts: 726
    dear Joe 47, will try the jam next year as they look as though they are almost crystalised fruit, everything written down!
  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    Frankly a fig will not be happy in a position that Valerie describes (indoors). We are not in Malta so unless the plant is in a greenhouse you will not get two crops, which is normal there. The OP does not mention the variety of fig.



    I had a Brown Turkey against a SW wall in west Wales and it gave many, many ripe figs, but every year the small figs that were not going to ripen were removed. I have also grown a Castle Kennedy in a greenhouse and had many ripe figs.



    Beware of 'wonder fruit' advertised. Often they are old, sub-standard varieties. The RHS grows a large greenhouse full of fig trees in big tubs. They are an authority I would trust.
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