Given the turn in weather people are busily bringing their potted figs into their greenhouses, sun rooms and other protected areas to help ripen the last of the figs.

Can figs in ground benefit from the same strategy by covering now with a seasonal greenhouse or temporary covering like hoophouse and poly?   The added heat and rain protection will likely help with ripening of some remaining figs. 

Will this put the fig plant at risk with the fast approaching winter and the time required to harden off and go dormant?

Ideas and suggestions welcome.

Final update on experiment to extend the season for my in-ground figs planted in the open field.

I am considering  this experiment a success given the little investment it took.  Namely a few coldframe hoops, clear 2 layer poly cover and a few hrs of work. 

It is end of October and I am still picking a bowl or more of figs a day.  The figs are still very sweet and tasty but lack the dark colour and intense flavours of the earlier figs that ripened in the open.  Still they are delicious and some visitors and their children were surprised but very happy to eat a few last weekend.

Next year for my in ground cold hardy figs I plan to install this greenhouse as an early boost in May/June, dismantle and install again Oct 1.  
I will also use this strategy to encourage fig varieties that have difficulty ripening quality figs in colder climates. 
In the long term would like to get a proper coldframe/greenhouse once the permits and cost requirements are addressed.

Here are a few photos of figs picked this past week and the before and after of the fig covering;