{"id":1066,"date":"2016-03-31T06:42:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2016-03-22T03:52:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:52:14","slug":"grow-your-own-figs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/grow-your-own-figs\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow your Own Figs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ficus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1079\" title=\"ficus\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ficus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ficus.jpg 304w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ficus-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Brown Turkey fig,<\/strong> Ficus carica, produces large, sweet, juicy figs even in British conditions.<\/p>\n<h3>Fig Growing Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Grown in a large pot they can get upto 12 feet tall but to encourage fruit prune in autumn and keep to a reasonable size about 5 -6 feet tall.<\/li>\n<li>Keep\u00c2\u00a0 plants well watered particularly when young.<\/li>\n<li>Grown against a south facing wall the full sun will encourage both fruiting and ripening.<\/li>\n<li>Expect fruit to ripen in August or\u00c2\u00a0 September and pick regularly leaving tiny, embryo fruit towards the ends of the shoots will over-winter and\u00c2\u00a0 will ripen the following year.<\/li>\n<li>Left to grow some Figs varieties can produce very large trees but they are not suitable for the British climate.<\/li>\n<li>Fig trees do not need a pollinator so one tree should suffice.<\/li>\n<li>Some winter protection may be needed in very hard frost.<\/li>\n<li>Constrain the roots to encourage fruit and suppress the desire for the fig to become a large tree.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brown Turkey fig, Ficus carica, produces large, sweet, juicy figs even in British conditions. Fig Growing Tips Grown in a large pot they can get upto 12 feet tall but to encourage fruit prune in autumn and keep to a reasonable size about 5 -6 feet tall. Keep\u00c2\u00a0 plants well watered particularly when young. Grown against a south facing wall the full sun will encourage both fruiting and ripening. Expect fruit to ripen in August or\u00c2\u00a0 September and pick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/grow-your-own-figs\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,18],"tags":[62,61],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-vegetables-herbs","tag-figs","tag-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}