Hello all. Very happy to have discovered this forum and have been enjoying it a great deal so I figured it was high time to introduce myself and jump in the pond with the rest of you rather then sitting on the sidelines.
I started "figging" 4 years ago with a tree I got at a local Loblaws superstore. They had no name just called a Hardy fig. I have been advised that they are likely the variety Hardy Chicago. This tree died my first winter....storing it unprotected in my attached garage just wasn't good enough up here in the great white north...lol. I got another tree late....mid june...the next year and got 3 brebas off it before it died back in the fall. I stored it in my cold cellar and last spring it hit the ground running and gave my about a dozen brebas...but they all dropped before ripening. I was getting discouraged and was just about ready to throw in the towel on this fig experiment when my main crop figs started to form. I was in heaven. On October 19 last fall I harvested my last fig and that gave me a total of 76 ripe figs off this great little tree. I started cuttings off this tree in March and now have 3 other young trees on the go as well as a Desert King tree I got this spring. My 3 year old tree now has over 170....yes I counted...main crop figs on it.
I have always had a big veggie garden and have grown many many vegetables and herbs in the last 32 years but so far nothing else has matched the enjoyment I'm getting out of playing this fig game.
I am looking forward to learning more as I putter along with this. I have also noticed some other Canadian/GTA members on here. I'd be very happy to swap stories with you "close to me" folks.
Thats all for now. Thanks all for making this a great little place to enjoy my morning coffee. I hope to be able to contribute and help out myself as time goes on.
Regards,
Steve