you live in zone 7 and you're afraid your NORTHERN brown turkey will not
overwinter??????? excuse me...am i missing something here????
i live in nhz4a and "I" am the one who needs worry about overwintering this
tree, although i realise no matter what i do for it, it'll die down to
ground level and put out new shoots come the spring.

tell you what...you contact me come spring and if i am not right...i'll buy
you a brand new fig tree.

imho, if you still are having worries, take the little tree and situate it
as close to your house as possible, in the south west corner. you may tie
it to the railing or whatever you have in that corner to prevent it from
getting knocked over by the wind...but anything else???? no way!!!

if you had posted your real email address without the b.s., i would have
contacted you privately as to spare you any embarrassment...but, hey!! i do
my best.

From: Boron Elgar
Newsgroups: rec.gardens.edible
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:37:24 -0400
Subject: How to Overwinter a Potted Brown Turkey fiG?

I have a lovely Brown Turkey fig that is on my deck in a huge patio
pot. The pot is 20" high and 20" across. This is not something I want
to bring indoors during the winter. It would be the size of a small
fridge.

How do I best protect it? I have had several options recommended to
me, such as wrapping the entire pot and tree in burlap and filling the
loosely wrapped tree part with leaves. I know that the wonderful
Italian gardeners in this area sometimes take a yard-rooted fig and
bend it over into a shallow dug trench & bury it for the winter.
Obviously, that isn't an option with a tub plant, and so I turn to the
wisdom on this group.

I am in northern NJ in zone 7.

Boron