how to grow figs, with lee reich
I invited my favorite fruit expert, Lee Reich, author of many exceptional garden books, including “Grow Fruit Naturally” and “Weedless Gardening” and “The Pruning Book,” to come talk figs on my public-radio show and podcast. (I’m giving away a copy of “Grow Fruit Naturally;” enter by commenting in the box at the very bottom of the page.)
I often refer to Lee as “the unusual fruit guy,” because one of his first books I read was “Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention.” Lee lives with blueberries and paw paws and medlars and kiwis and of course figs and more not far from me, across the Hudson in New Paltz, New York, on what he calls his farm-den (as in half-farm, half-garden) loaded with unusual fruits.
Learn what figs want wherever you’d like to cultivate them; how to make them happy in winter storage if they can’t stay outdoors at your place; how to tell if a fig is ripe–and more. Read along as you listen to the June 1, 2015 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).
read/listen: my fig-growing q&aa q&a with lee reichQ. I read on your website that you left behind a collection of 35 fig varieties when you moved to the Hudson Valley from Maryland–which was how many years ago?
A. It was many years ago, when winters were much
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