Figs, Figs and more Figs

Posted by Rachel Gardiner on March 25, 2011 at 7:52am

We have a fig orchard in Waiuku and have loads and loads of seconds ( am fattening my two big steers on them at the moment to see if it changes the meat! ) available that we sell of anyone is interested. They are seconds due to not making the Export grade that we have to meet to send to the US.

We sell them by the Kilo and can courier to anywhere in New Zealand. If you are interested them please contact me on here or email nzfigs@gmail.com

 

cheers

Rachel

The picture is of our Export Figs

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  • Tara McFarlane March 25, 2011 at 11:41pm

    Hi Rachel

     

    We're just in Paparimu and would love to get my paws on some figs - thinking jams and chutneys with them... Mmmmmmmmmmmm

    Let me know if I can swing by and pick some up

     

    Cheers

     

    T

  • Brian Adam March 25, 2011 at 7:32pm
    Thanks. I'm very interested. Email coming. I'm local!! My brunora black is fairly young and I'm trying to keep it's size tight. Meaning, I'm winter and summer pruning to stop it ranging all over the place.
  • Megan March 25, 2011 at 10:21am

    hello Rachel,

    thank you so much for offering to share your figs grown out of your own back yard, with those of us who can't grow our own unless we enjoy a microclimate like moggy's, it's far too cold for them to fully ripen on the tree where I live.

    I would much rather pay a courier charge for produce grown in a fellow oooobyite's yard than buy from the supermarket where they may have been airfreighted from goodness knows where.

    • moggy > Megan March 25, 2011 at 10:27am
      I know you are further south than me, but you are closer to the equator than my last place in the UK. I actually got more figs from my tree there that I do here, so do not write them off.
    • Megan > moggy March 25, 2011 at 10:37am
      thanks moggy, will persevere :)
    • moggy > Megan March 25, 2011 at 9:49pm
      I forgot to say, usually the fruits would grow one year, you leave them on the tree and they ripen the following year
  • moggy March 25, 2011 at 10:03am

    am seriously interested in how you grow figs. We have one fig tree here, which looks healthy enough, but still not much bigger than when it was planted a couple of years ago, and no figs this year. We are forever looking for a suitable crop for this place.

    We are on shingle, with next to no top soil. Almost frost free and summer temperatures up to 42C. For 3 months of the year the temperature rarely drops below 35C midday. At night, it is like a storage radiator and we can still have temperatures up to 29C at 11pm (and yes we are on the south island, 40km from chch).

    We have enough water to irrigate/fertigate . What would you say our chances of growing a fig orchard?

    and can you grow them from cuttings? if so when and how?

  • Peter watson March 25, 2011 at 9:29am
    Rachel,
    I'm sure your figs are great, but to advertise that you can courier them anywhere in NZ seems to be completely against the purpose of this website (out of our own back yards) which is to promote LOCAL exchange!
    Perhaps you can spread the word in your local community.
    Couriering food around the country is completely unsustainable.
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