Growing Figs: How to Grow Fig Trees in Pots and Gardens, from Planting to Harvest

Most gardeners know the fig tree that does everything except fruit: enormous, gloriously leafy, hung with hard green figs that stay hard and green until they drop in November. The tree is perfectly healthy. It simply has no idea its owner wanted figs. The difference between that tree and one bearing soft, sun-warmed fruit on a south wall is rarely luck, and this book explains why.

Two ideas run through everything here. The first is the way a fig carries its crop in a cool climate: the figs...