Making fig jam: the complete guide
Everything from the jam section in one long read, in the order you will need it on a cooking day.
Guides
Longer, step-by-step reading for the kitchen and the garden. Guides are being written in the order we need them ourselves; the ones in preparation are listed so you can see what is coming.
Kitchen
Preserving figs
Jam, whole preserves, pickled figs, figs in syrup and fig paste: the options for a glut, with sources.
Drying figs
Oven, dehydrator or sun: how to dry figs at home and keep them.
Freezing figs
The easiest way to keep a harvest for jam later: tray-freeze whole or halved figs, bag them, and cook from frozen.
Garden
Growing figs
Site, soil, water, feeding and pruning for a fig tree that fruits rather than just grows.
Growing figs in containers
Pot size, mix, watering and the annual move under cover. Figs take to pots better than most fruit trees.
Growing figs in colder climates
What we have learned growing figs a few blocks from the Atlantic in Queens: variety choice, siting, and getting the tree through winter.
Winter protection for fig trees
Step-by-step wrapping, when to do it, and when to unwrap.
Pruning figs
When and how much, for a tree you can reach and a crop you can pick.
Propagating figs from cuttings
Figs root easily from dormant cuttings. How we do it, and how we share trees.
Common fig pests and problems
Birds, wasps, ants, fig rust and splitting: what shows up on our trees and what we do about it.