The Product
FIGO is the creation of gardener and FIGO company director Sharon Wong. Fed up with losing veggies to garden pests, and frustrated with existing garden frame products that were too rigid, expensive and unreliable, Sharon put together a prototype FIGO connector and brought it to the acclaimed
in London. A successful product launch, radio appearances, and much positive interest from gardening blogs, magazines, and newspapers quickly followed. In 2012, FIGO Products Ltd won Business and Industry Today magazine's coveted Gardening Products Company of the Year Award.
Today, FIGO Products is still expanding into new markets (we currently retail in five countries in Europe, North America and Australia – see below), with a range of additional, complementary products on the horizon.
When you only have a little patch of land – be it a garden or an allotment – you inevitably want to use as much of it as possible. In our garden, you find culinary plants in all sorts of funny places. Recently, we even planted some sweetcorn in front of our living room window, because we know full well that if we put it in the allotment, the badgers would scoff it! (We found a badger eating our gooseberries at dusk last summer – this year, we will be making a FIGO frame and netting the bushes to protect them before they fruit.)
Wild strawberries are much smaller than the varieties we are used to seeing on the supermarket shelves – roughly a centimetre in diameter – but they taste astounding. They have a very sweet, almost floral flavour. Once they are fruiting, I tend to pick a bowlful every other day and freeze them immediately, building up a stock that I can use later in the year in compotes or scattered on my winter breakfast cereal.
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