I ran across this video and thought it would be of particular interest to those growing figs in cold weather, although, there's something everyone can learn from:

Bump for the newer members to see and learn some basics about fig plants.

Thanks for bumping this, Martin.  And thanks for the original post, Figaro!  I'll be watching this tonight.  Looks like a ton of great info.

The single best lesson from this:
ther are a lot of ways to do things, not just one best way.

It was a good view, he is a good teacher.

Note:  I forgot to mention this when I posted it, but right at (just before) 55 minutes into it, he plugs F4F and says the real experts are here on this forum! ;)

Wow. Didn't plan on watching an hour video on figs tonight but there was a lot of useful info! Thanks for posting!

That was very informative and entertaining, Thank you for posting it a bumping it.

Great video. Thanks for posting it.

Great video! Thanks for posting that! Makes my worrying about my zone 6b seem pretty silly. If he can do it anyone can grow figs.

Great very informative Video and cool guy! I could picture him as my neighbour! :-)

Thanks for posting, good video.

I just ordered Steven Biggs book "Grow Figs Where You Think You Can't".

He also ships to europe,I think this will be very helpfull for me!