Fig Trees

Giant green figs are a favorite.

A fig will reveal when it is ripe to be harvested by a rapid swelling in the fig fruit size. The fig then will begin to droop and sag. You can buy fig trees from online mail order nurseries.

A freshly ripened fig fruit can be easily turned into tasty preserves, fig jams or fig snacks, and taste best when spread on hot buttered biscuits.

Purplish-brown, greenish yellow, and deep burgundy are several colors characteristic of the fresh fig.

Fig Trees

Conadria Fig Tree
Green Ischau Fig Trees
Italian Everbearing Fig Tree
Jack's Black Fig Trees
Kadota Fig Tree
King Fig Trees
LSU Gold Fig Tree
Mission Black Fig Trees
Mystery X Fig Tree
Nero Caesar Fig Trees
Osborne Prolific Fig Tree
Patrick's Supergiant Fig Trees
Peter's Honey Fig Tree
Tennessee Mountain Trees
White Genoa Fig Tree
Wild Celeste Fig Trees

A green Ischau fig tree will fill your refrigerator with fresh fruit from your own orchard trees. The delicate flavor of the fig is unrivaled by other fruit tree products. You can buy your green Ischau fig trees, as well as numerous others, from Ty Ty Nursery.

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The Fig Tree Fed Ancient Civilizations and Feeds Modern Gardeners Today

The Fig Tree that grows in today’s fruit garden is a tropical-like crop that matures figs in the Summer even in Northern States with a cold hardy character unknown until the last decade. Hybrid fig trees have been shown to survive temperatures of zero degrees in outside gardens and re-grow to produce various colored fig fruit in the Summer, colored, green, brown, black, blue, purple, white and yellow – tasty and delicious. The fig is tree ripe when the shape of the fig sags and is sweetest when picked to dry in the sun. The dried fig contains considerable sugar and can be used as fig newtons, fig candy or fig rolls. The cold hardy character of the fig means that the fig tree can be extensively grown when properly mulched throughout the U.S.

The fig tree was one of the ancient fruits recorded in the Bible along with the pomegranate, olive, grape and date palm that fed ancient civilizations reliably. A famous Bible reference in the Gospels of Matthew & Mark notes that Jesus cursed a fig tree, and the Apostle Peter noted that because the fig tree had no available figs to eat, the fig tree instantly withered. Many Bible Scriptures cite the fig tree leafing out as being a sign of Summer and also a sign of the apocalypse when Jesus returns to earth to rapture His Christian followers.

The fig tree is highly productive and produces several waves of fig ripening, if the figs are picked often from the tree. In Europe the fig is sold fresh at markets or dried into fig bars or sold in cafes as fig desserts. The great problem with fig trees is the short shelf life of the fig after harvest, but drying the fig is an excellent alternative to spoiling.

Wildlife animals love to eat figs especially birds and many fig growers cover their trees with netting to thwart wildlife game. Farmers have known in the South that planting a fig tree in a pig lot will provide cheap food to fatten hogs.

The fig tree is easy to grow and appears to favor sandy soil of low fertility. The greatest threat to fig trees is the old garden site that grows tomatoes and peppers where the nematode (eelworm) thrives in large populations. The nematode goes directly into the soft fleshy roots of the fig tree causing the fig tree to decline and the nematode can even crawl up into the bark to eat the fig leaf or fig fruit.

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