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- Self-pollinating fig trees for the home garden
- Winter hardy fig trees
- Variety choice: Depending on the future location
- Especially tasty and robust fig tree varieties
- Tips & Tricks
Self-pollinating fig trees for the home garden
Lovers of the fig can choose among hundreds of fig tree varieties. These differ in leaf shape, vigor, frost tolerance and taste and color of the pseudopods. However, the flowers of numerous fig species need to be fertilized by the fig gallbladder, which does not occur north of the Alps. Therefore, you should only resort to varieties that form fruits without cross-pollination.
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Due to the fruit development without prior fertilization, the crop yield of the house fig (Adriatic type) is larger, which is why these varieties are grown today in a big way. The fig trees thrive not only in the warmer vineyards and in well-protected places, but are frost hardy to minus twenty degrees Celsius. However, these fig tree varieties in our latitudes only once a year in late autumn mature mock fruits.
Variety choice: Depending on the future location
If you plan on planting a fig, you should consider the site conditions in your garden and choose a suitable variety from the varied offer. Not all varieties are suitable as potted plants that can be overwintered in the house, because they do not apply fruits in the cramped planter.
Especially tasty and robust fig tree varieties
Listing all fig tree varieties would go beyond the scope of this article. So here are just a few representatives who are considered very hardy and thrive in our latitudes:
Tips & Tricks
Fig tree varieties whose cultivation has been tried and tested in our latitudes for decades or centuries, is often preceded by the term "recognized" or "old" variety in the plant description.