fig burial

(The following is from my book GROWING FIGS IN COLD CLIMATES) 

The Warm Earth

I buried two fig plants a few days ago. No, not because they died. The reason was night temperatures occasionally dipping into the low ‘teens (13°F, to be exact, on December 4th), which is just about the limit for fig stem survival. If the stems die from cold, there’ll be no fig harvest from them them next summer.

Last summer’s figs

So what’s the connection with cold and burying the plants? The ground is a repository of heat; dig a few feet down Read more