Does anyone have a fig tree?

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Our fig tree is having a rare bumper year with loads of ripe figs every day - we have even made jam! A normal year for ours would be 1 or 2 a day.

Are fig trees all over britain doing well this year?

Our fig tree is doing really well too, mum keeps bringing in about 4-7 a day and was thinking of doing jam herself but she's found too many people to give them to and I keep feeding them to dd as well.

My mum says that as long as a fig tree has a sunny position, the more you abuse it the more it rewards you! Hers grows in a bricked-up stairwell and is never watered, yet gives more figs than we can eat or give away, and is trying to take over their patio.

If the summer was long enough, they would get two crops. Has anyone ever got the second crop to ripen? We're in England, BTW.

Sometimes Mum makes fig 'leather', I'm not sure how, but I think it involves cooking chopped figs with some lemon juice, then spreading thin sheets of the pulp on baking trays and baking for a while. Don't know the details, but the result is a really nice (and healthy ! ) fruit chewy.

you are sooo lucky, I adore figs in all their forms. Fig jam is the best thing ever. Am dribbling all over the keyboard now...
I wish I had room in the garden to plant a fig tree, I must say I didn't think you could have them here and that they would actually bear nice fruit... YUM!!!!