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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew figs for years, until a super cold winter killed the tree. I grow currents now, along with crab apples. I make a current-crab apple jelly that is very nice.

I planted native plums last year and got one plum. Hoping for 3 or 4 this year![/quote]

I would love to grow figs but I get eeked out about wasps? And parts of wasps that are in the fig? Someone talk me down. [/quote]

There are no wasp parts in figs! I never noticed that there were more wasps around my figs than around super ripe peaches or raspberries. Wasps like sugar, and figs are sugary. One thing you can do is pick the figs at the right time and not leave them on the tree to get overripe and split. Then the wasps really do like them. I interact with more wasps at a park picnic table than I ever do at my fig tree.[/quote]

Agree. We've been growing figs for nearly 25 years here, and wasps are no more of a problem than with other things you might grow. Every so often we have a bad winter where the trees will die back, but they usually come back from the roots. You have to carefully retrain the growth when that happens, but it grows back very fast. We've seen it twice in 25 years so far. My neighbor has been growning them for longer than me, and he cuts the whole tree down to the ground every year to control size. We don't do that, but we both get lots of figs every year. You do want to learn about the size of the variety tree and its growth habits/pruning techniques, because they are all different. My friend has a tree in Califonia that is bigger than the house. You don't want that in the city. This guy in NJ has good videos about figs: https://www.figboss.com

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