All fruit trees certified virus free with a FREE FRUIT TREE WARRANTY. Most are UK seeds/grown with up to 4 years root and 2 years tree growth or more. Smaller rootstocks can bear fruit the first year. Looking to buy several fruit trees? Click here for our FREE FRUIT TREE OFFER.  All basic pruning requirements completed before delivery.

Noire De Carombe provides quite large fragrant fruits with a fine deep Violet or Black skin. Supposedly native to Afghanistan. Should feel right at home in some of our council estates*. 

Noire De Carombe is frost resistant providing the roots do not become frozen and is resistant to many diseases.

Being self-fertile, it will produce fruit without the need of another fig tree in the vicinity to pollinate and can grow to 6 metres (18 ft) 

Depending on weather and local conditions you may get fruit within one growing season.

*Someone complained Fri 29/04/2011 12:23 and emailed anonymously the following:
"Do you really think as a supposed internet consultant...it's cool to have such a casual piece of racist and class-bound bigotry as this under your fig tree"

To which we reply: 

"It's humour....calm down dear".  Ok, if the Figs, Afghanis or any council houses have a grievance with our humour then let us know.

Trouble Choosing
Cannot decide which fruit tree? Take a look at our TOP SELLING FRUIT TREES

Wet Ground
If you have wet conditions then choose a PEAR TREE first, followed by APPLE TREES. They don't prefer it but will tolerate water, H2O or liquid better, depending which one you have most of!

General Fruit Tree Life Expectancy
Most fruit trees will give you AT LEAST 40 years of fruit. Pears can go to 70. Records of 200 year old trees exist but this is the exception, not the rule. 

General Pollination Information
For more information on pollination please look at  POLLINATION EXPLAINED or choosing the CORRECT POLLINATION PARTNER

Fig Tree Root Stock
Fig trees are one of the few fruit trees we sell that are not grafted (grown as Mother Nature intended)  

Preserving Figs
If don't have enough friends to give them away to then try preserving figs in the drying cupboard. Rotate them daily and in 6-8 weeks you will have dried figs and possibly a lot of wet washing.

Brown Turkey Fig (Ficus Carica)
This is our most popular Fig Tree, possibly because of the distinctive sweet taste.

Fig Tree Planting
Most fig trees thrive better in a sheltered but full sun position i.e. facing South or South West. For larger crops of figs, contain the roots because if allowed to grow uncontrolled, the tree will do a "Prescott" (Put all efforts into getting bigger). Keep in a 45cm (18 inch pot) which can also be buried for a conventional look. Do not fill with soil, leave at least 10 cm (4 inches) for compost which will be required every year or other form of feeding.

You can vary the size of the pot or other root restriction, the rule of thumb is the smaller the pot or confined area, the smaller the tree will be but pruning can also be used to restrict final size.

Bayernfeige Violetta, Ice Crystal and Brown Turkey are best for outdoor growing, most others would benefit from some form of shelter. 

Fig Tree Aftercare
As with all other restricted root growth or containerised trees, ensure you water regularly, especially in summer when 3 times a week in warm weather will be the minimum. When the fruits start to appear, cover with a net to deter birds. The fruits are ready when they start to droop on the stalk with well coloured skin or the skin cracks.

Feed weekly with compost/well rotted manure or high potash liquid such as tomato feed once the fruit starts to show.

Be wary of the white sap when pruning as it can be a skin irritant.

If your fig tree is looking a little sorry for itself, hard prune and leave, it will produce new growth and recover.   

General Fig Tree Information
Only the small embryonic fruits forming on last years growth will turn in to fruits. A second crop may appear in the summer but this will not mature and should be removed unless you want to try and bring them on in a greenhouse. 

Most fig trees can spread up to 3m if left to grow unchecked. 

All cuttings will grow into female trees and bear fruit.

Figs are apparently good for treating warts!

Figs can be used as a laxative and are good for diabetics as they are high in sugar.