Blake09

How far away should I plant my Brown Turkey Fig Tree from my vegetable garden? I want to have a couple fig trees lining one side of the garden, and how far apart from each other? My G-parents had a Brown Turkey Fig Tree about 13ft out in a corner of their garden and the vegetables do fine.

I am going to keep these trees bushy like my g-parents and not let them grow into a tree. My Great Great g-parents had several fig trees around the house and beside the garden so I am just wanting to follow their path...




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sunfish

13' sounds good to me

raygrogan

Please post pix and results of your bushy fig trees. Sounds like a fine vision. My Brown Turkey grows about 2-3' in an Iowa summer. I keep it relatively small (spends winter in a cold frame against house, can only leave about 2 ft of stems when I trim it back in fall to fit back into the frame) but it is not particularly bushy. So that must take some balanced pruning thru the growing season?

13' seems generous enough, to leave you room to walk between garden and tree with low shape, not block sun, etc. Tomatoes and onions grow pretty close up under mine.

venturabananas

I've got a brown turkey that isn't too hard to maintain at a bushy 7' tall and 7' wide.

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Darkman

I put mine at 15' for no one good reason other than I had four to plant and a 15' spread looked good. In my area that will not be enough and after quite a few years it will be a fig hedge.

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saltydad

In my area (7a), will I have to wrap my Brown Turkey fig? The old Italian farmers in NY always did this with burlap, but I'm hoping to be able to leave it alone. It's only about 2-3 feet tall.

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Darkman

I would think you would need to do something. I would think where you are it would freeze to the ground. Some figs are strong enough to come back from the roots and fruit that same year on suckers that will form. The Brown Turkey will in the deep South BUT in Maryland I don't know. It is not the cold hardiest fig.

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saltydad

Thanks all. I'll wrap it with burlap.

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