I have a 4-5 year old brown turkey fig (in ground since December 08). It survived winter 08-09 with a wrapping of foam rubber pipe insulation and a garbage bag. It made it through with some tip dieback, but grew fine. It bore well, but the figs didn't ripen before frost. This year I mulched heavily with shredded leaves, tied up the branches and wrapped the tree (it's about 5 feet tall) with about 3-4 layers of burlap, and put a plastic bucket on top. I'm waiting to unwrap it until late march, but does anyone want to give me odds that I've done it right? I saw the contraptions some of you built and worried I may have underwrapped it. It's in a rowhouse garden, so fairly sheltered from the wind. I don't think temperatures have dropped below a nighttime low of 15F this year, and January total avg was around 31F.

Any thoughts?