Boron Elgar wrote:

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

My BIL built an enclosure 4' square and 8' high out of 2"x2" strapping
and rigid foam insulation to fit around his fig tree. He placed a 100
watt bulb inside the enclosure for warmth.
It worked for several years. Unfortunately, two years ago the bulb
burned out sometime during the winter and the fig was toast in the
spring.
We are in Canadian Zone 5b which I think translates to USDA Zone 5.
Ross,
Ontario, Canada.
New AgCanada Zone 5b
43º19' North
80º16' West
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