>>648535Meh it's not even that much of an exotic thing here, you just have to cheat a little (black foil on the surrounding soil to heat things up).
Almost every second garden in my village has a fig tree, and I see lots of Turks coming here in October to buy the ripe fruits from the gardeners (dunno why they're so obsessed about that ordinary fruit, apparently it's better than the supermarket stuff I guess - anyway I'm planting one too next year, took a cutting from the neighbour garden back in September, got it rooting in a water glass and temporarily moved it into a pot and planning on planting it out in April, hope to get a nice fruit-bearing tree soon too)
We also got a few olive trees around here, but they get heavy protection during severe winters, but reliably bear green fruit by early to mid November, and true black ones by late December (the ones you get to buy in supermarkets here are just green ones "painted" black with iron gluconate - no comparison to the real deal)
