The fig is one of the most exotic fruits you will be able to grow in Britain. Mark Diacono explains how to go about it.
A fig eaten straight from the hand of the grower in a market on the Greek island of Santorini ruined me for figs for 20 years. So juicy and luscious was that fruit, and the 11 that followed it on that balmy evening, that all others I bought in this country — picked ahead of the glorious ripeness that figs are born to — felt like leather on the…
