Steven Biggs
Steven Biggs’s love for growing food reshaped his Toronto yard, which includes a driveway straw-bale garden, a rooftop kitchen garden, wicking beds, an edible-themed front yard, a potted patio citrus grove, and lots of fig plants. He’s a self-described “fig pig,” and his family knows that the car can’t go in the garage over winter because that’s where his dormant fig plants hang out. When not writing, teaching horticulture, or podcasting about gardening with his teenage daughter, he’s in the kitchen cooking his harvest.
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Kitchen GardeningWant to Grow Figs? Try One of These Varieties
There’s a fig for every taste. Some are more berrylike; some are more datelike. The color of the skin ranges from very dark purple or brown to very light green,…
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How-ToOverwintering In-Ground Figs in Colder Climates
The most important rule when growing figs in cold areas is to be creative. For example, I once met a Zone 5 grower who made a “figatorium,” a greenhouse with…
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How-ToHow to Grow Figs, Even in Colder Climates
Figs intrigue many gardeners. The breadth of interest struck me when I donated a spindly little dormant fig plant for a raffle and the winner told me she had received…
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