FORBIDDEN FRUIT

Figs have a double harvest as they produce two crops a year. The main crop forms in summer and ripens in autumn. The second crop, known as the breba, grows in spring and ripens in summer.

While two crops are a bonus, it is that delicious flavour that comes with biting into a ripe fig harvested fresh from the garden that reminds you why this is the ideal backyard fruit tree. The sweetest figs are the ones bursting out of their skins and you’ll never find those in the shops.

Left to grow, the fig grows into a large and handsome