Chicago hardy fig update
Our Chicago
Hardy Fig will be 2 years
old this November.
Anna predicted it would be
2012 when we would first see some fruit and it looks like there should
be a respectable amount depending on how soon our first major frost
happens.
Neither of us have tasted
fresh figs and we have been looking forward to fig harvest day since we
saw the first buds.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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MamaHomesteader --- Ours is loaded too, but we'll have to wait and see if any ripen before it gets too cold. Since we've got nearly two months before the frost, though, and most are big, I'm very hopeful.
You can see our fig overwintering method here.
Howard --- I'll bet you're in zone 7. I know folks in Asheville with great-looking hardy figs, but I think we're just a hair colder here than there, which makes the frost-protection mandatory. Where the leaves drifted down from around the tops of our branches, those parts of the tree died back. On the other hand, I've read that even if your whole tree dies back each year, you can get fruit off these hardy figs as long as the winter frost doesn't come too early, which is what we're banking on!
Your spread sounds delectable! We always used to make a decadent mixture at Christmas --- dried apricots, dried figs, dried dates, walnuts, coconut, and pecans, all ground up together and rolled into balls along with a bit of lemon zest and juice. Delectable!