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Hello all:
I would like to make fig jam for myself.
Here in Canada we can buy commercial figs from California, Mexico and Brazil but transport make them quite expensive at about 1$ (sometimes $1.50) a piece and frankly coming from so far away they don’t taste very good, IMO. Huge carbon impact by the way. So buying 200 figs to make my own jam is out of the question. I have to grow them.
I bought many fig jams jars from abroad (Greece, Lebanon, France etc.) but was disappointed with their extreme added sugar content and little flesh.
I prefer dark skin figs (outside) with dark flesh (either black/brown/red (inside)). I prefer fig with thin “skin” and a lot of flesh. I don’t care if they are “petite” size because “taste” is important to me…
Being so close to the North Pole 😜 I prefer varieties with only Breba or harvest time no later than mid September to early October.
I could grow 12 trees from different varieties.
Fig trees are going to be grown in containers in my greenhouse or outside and put in shed at 5 C (41 F) for winter.
A warm thanks for any suggestions.
P.S. I would like to get cuttings not established trees. I will post later in order to ask for cuttings providers within 🇨🇦.
Marc Lamarre
Stukely-sud
Québec, Canada
I would like to make fig jam for myself.
Here in Canada we can buy commercial figs from California, Mexico and Brazil but transport make them quite expensive at about 1$ (sometimes $1.50) a piece and frankly coming from so far away they don’t taste very good, IMO. Huge carbon impact by the way. So buying 200 figs to make my own jam is out of the question. I have to grow them.
I bought many fig jams jars from abroad (Greece, Lebanon, France etc.) but was disappointed with their extreme added sugar content and little flesh.
I prefer dark skin figs (outside) with dark flesh (either black/brown/red (inside)). I prefer fig with thin “skin” and a lot of flesh. I don’t care if they are “petite” size because “taste” is important to me…
Being so close to the North Pole 😜 I prefer varieties with only Breba or harvest time no later than mid September to early October.
I could grow 12 trees from different varieties.
Fig trees are going to be grown in containers in my greenhouse or outside and put in shed at 5 C (41 F) for winter.
A warm thanks for any suggestions.
P.S. I would like to get cuttings not established trees. I will post later in order to ask for cuttings providers within 🇨🇦.
Marc Lamarre
Stukely-sud
Québec, Canada
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