| Around here, where winters reliably drop to minus 10 or below, fig roots often survive winter, depending on the depth of mulch. The problem is that new sprouts on varieties that bear fruit on current season's wood do not necessarily have enough time to ripen fruit. My Chicago Hardy, on the south side of my brick house, died to the ground and grew almost 10 feet high by season's end without ripening even one fig. One year I put a fence around it, filled it with wood shavings, and capped it with plastic; for some reason, it still died back, to within a couple of feet of the ground. Still no ripe fruit. So getting roots to survive winter isn't that difficult. What is important in harvesting ripe figs is how far back the stems die and how long (and hot) a season new shoots have to grow. Lee Reich, PhD Books by Lee Reich: A Northeast Gardener's Year The Pruning Book Weedless Gardening Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden Landscaping with Fruit On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Richard Moyer wrote:
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