Step 4: Storing Harvested Figs
Harvest time is one of the favorite times for any gardener, and it’s the time where you get to see all your hard work paying off. There’s more about just how and when to harvest figs later on in this article, but a lot can also be said for how you should be storing figs that you’ve harvested from the tree.
Figs are one of the more fragile types of fruit, and once harvested they’re best turned into something that can be stored instead of stored directly – for example, jams and preserves can keep for months to years whereas storing figs in the fridge will only be useful for about three or four days at most.
If you want the fruit itself to the last longer, then you can also freeze figs either peeled or not and have them be fine for a few weeks.
There are many products that can be made from figs, and they can even be cut into slices and then dried in order to give them a longer shelf life.