Fig Season Starts

[dalthauser]

My dearest fig tree - the first thing I ever planted on my property - blessed me with with an actual crop this year.  The first year I owned it I almost killed it.  It died to the ground, and I almost dug it up and gave it a decent burial.  I procrastinated though - and the next spring it began to grow again.  I vowed to treat it right from then on.  This year it really took off growing.  Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I bury random dead animals I come across underneath it (so far two squirrels, a raccoon, and a few birds).

Fig tree started as a little 2 ft high baby tree in a gallon bucket.  Now it's well over 8 feet.




Fig tree is big enough now that I have to use a ladder to get to the top.


Fig tree is producing enough this year for the birds AND me.

Comments

[jbluemoon.livejournal.com]

Yum!

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

That is wonderful!

I love figs. It does not always get hit enough for them in the summer here.

I used to have a compost heap under it, that's when it thrived the best. I must re-institute that.

At the moment the birds get nearly all of them :( I have made and used little individual cloth bags, but the birds eat right through them!

I have to put a cage around it, or think of a new location where a cage may be easier to erect.

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

The first time I ever tasted a fresh fig was off my tree. The only experience I had prior was those awful Newton cookies.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

A very luscious experience, I bet :)

My first experience was when I was a kid and we visied some neighbours about half a mile away once when the figs on their bog old tree were ripe. an unforgettable experience.

Have you ever had dried figs? They are very yummy, too :)

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I take it back. Prio experiences include Newtons and dried figs :-)

I love dried Dates even though I think they look a little like cockroaches.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Dried figs, while yummy, are not the same as fresh ones, especially straight off the tree!

Yes, I like dried dates and I put them in cakes :)

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

Yummy. Will you eat them fresh or dry them?

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

If I had enough I'd make preserves, but there's really only enough to eat fresh. Maybe in a year or two I'll be overrun (one can only hope).