Fig Trees - Second Crop
bigalxyz
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in Fruit & veg
Hello forum
i have two quite big fig trees in my garden, both planted in the ground but with their roots constrained by growing pits made from 2ft paving slabs.
They've fruited once already (very nice) and now they’re covered in dozens and dozens and dozens of unripe fruit - a second crop.
It’s September now...there’s some warm weather still to come, but the sunlight is starting to fade and everything is starting to slow down. I’m hoping to get the second crop to ripen. Is there anything I can do to maximise my chances? Feeding, pruning, thinning out the crop, etc.?
(I’m in central London btw)
Thank you
Alan
i have two quite big fig trees in my garden, both planted in the ground but with their roots constrained by growing pits made from 2ft paving slabs.
They've fruited once already (very nice) and now they’re covered in dozens and dozens and dozens of unripe fruit - a second crop.
It’s September now...there’s some warm weather still to come, but the sunlight is starting to fade and everything is starting to slow down. I’m hoping to get the second crop to ripen. Is there anything I can do to maximise my chances? Feeding, pruning, thinning out the crop, etc.?
(I’m in central London btw)
Thank you
Alan
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https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-harvest-figs/
So with 2019 being a more average year I’m wondering if it’s better to have a small second crop that might ripen compared to a huge one that won’t.
Every year they take almost my entire stone fruit crop. They don’t seem quite so interested in the figs although they probably do steal about half of them.