Why Our Fig Tree Survived the Winter

Last fall I wrapped up our newly planted fig tree for the winter not knowing if it would survive or not (but I was really trying and hoping). Read more about Winterizing our Fig Tree here. This past spring I was nervous when we opened it up, but despite losing a few branches at the top to the cold winter, lo and behold, the fig tree was alive! It had survived the winter and the proof was the little buds that were growing on the lower branches. The way we wrapped it up apparently worked out pretty well and hopefully we will get better at it each year that we own this lovely, fruit producing, edible plant! As you can see in the picture we are now into summer and it is growing really well. We are so pleased with the results we thought we would share a few pictures with you.

This is what the fig looked like after surviving the winter. We did not 'unveil' it until there was no more frost.

A few of the branches you see were rotted and not getting any buds so we simply cut them off.

You can see that it is not as tall as it was because we had to remove some of the upper parts of the branches. But look at it! It is growing like crazy :-)

The tree had figs last year while in the pot, however we are not expecting any this year or even next year because it needs to make itself at home in it's new location.  But it will provide figs down the road and we can't wait!!

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