Our Grey County Fig Tree
Early in the spring of 2013 Paul and I purchased a fig tree. We did our internet research and were
confident that we could winter our fig without a green house or space in a
sunny window.
Fig Trees Go Dormant in Cold Weather
We moved our fig tree into the unheated garage where we
installed a heat lamp and surrounded the pot (root system) with black reflective
front-end car bra. Paul limited watering
to once a month during the coldest part of the winter and then with increasing
frequency as the temperature in the garage started to rise.
At the end of March we started to see new growth appearing
and we worried that our tree would become weak and spindly from lack
of light. Remember the only light in the
garage was the heat lamp, which ran 24 hours a day.
Our worries were not realized as the growth was very slow
and by the time the weather outside replicated that of January in the garage we were able to move the fig outside under a roof overhang to provide some protection.
April 20, 2014 Our Fig Tree Moves Outside
We have covered it twice when temperatures threatened to fall
too far below freezing. Our fig tree
looks healthy and has started to grow two figs. We will keep you updated on our fig tree and hope to start collecting fig recipes to add to the blog.
Grandma Snyder
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