How to grow Fig?

Adriatic figs are harvested in June and again in August. Their super-sweet nature means they work particularly well as a simple fruit dessert all on their own. If you need to jazz them up, serve them with a dollop of crème fraîche or mascarpone cheese. They are also delicious sliced or chopped served on ice cream or plain, unsweetened yogurt. If you can get your hands on sheep milk yogurt, all the better.

Black Mission figs are extremely sweet (sometimes they even ooze a bit of syrup, which you should take as a very good sign when picking or buying them). Despite their name, they aren't really black—more of an insanely deep blue-purple that is gorgeous in its own right. Inside they are beautifully pink. Their dark exteriors make any wilting or puckering from being less-than-fresh quite obvious, making it all the easier to find perfectly ripe specimens.

The Brown Turkey Fig Tree is an old time favorite in the southeast for fresh eating and canning whole. The medium sized, bell shaped fruits are purplish-brown with light pink flesh. This small productive tree will produce delicious sweet figs in summer and usually a secondary crop in early Fall, which makes it a good choice for those who want to container-grow on their patio or have limited yard space. Old Brown Turkey Fig Trees have survived single digit temperatures from time to time near the Willis family farm in southern Georgia. Grows in zones: 7 - 10