Figs
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Posted: Jul/06/2008 8:33 AM PST
My Fig trees are really putting on the figs since it turned hot. This is just one limb, and it is loaded. John Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jul/06/2008 10:15 AM PST
Oh, man! Call me when they are ripe. SLURP! |
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Posted: Jul/06/2008 10:27 AM PST
Wow. That's really exciting. It really gives me hope for my little fig twig. |
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Posted: Jul/06/2008 7:26 PM PST
Lucky you! I haven't eaten figs in a long time. My grandma had a few trees-we had fig preserves, fig ice cream, fig cake, lots of fig stuff. Makes me want some now! |
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Posted: Jul/07/2008 8:25 PM PST
Fig ice cream?!?!... what's the recipe!! |
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Posted: Jul/08/2008 4:57 AM PST
Don't have the recipe-All of my Mom's cookbooks and recipes were thrown away by one of my brothers and his wife. Long and sad/bad story. But, I think she took the recipe off a "junket" box. (Do they still make junket ice cream mix?)And I know she used carnation milk, not reg. milk, and the figs were peeled, but left raw in the mix. She would pour it in a bowl, or any container and freeze it-not made in the ice cream freezer. I can almost taste it. |
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Posted: Aug/24/2008 9:24 AM PST
We have picked about two cups from this little tree, and it keeps on putting out more. John Attachments:  |
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Posted: Aug/25/2008 2:40 AM PST
That's great, bug. We haven't gotten any yet. I'll keep on hoping, though. |
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Posted: Aug/26/2008 6:19 PM PST
Those are beautiful trees! The leaves remind me of papaya leaves. |
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Posted: Aug/27/2008 9:55 AM PST
That looks like the fig tree that i picked up in a pot at the farmers market. Mine had one fig on it which fell off. The i transplanted it into a little bigger clay pot and it's growing like a weed. It was 10 inches or so when i got it in June and it is now 5 feet tall with about twenty figs on it. But here's the thing that i am not sure of: there are these rust colored spots on the lower leaves and i read about something called leaf rust. But someone told me that the lower leaves of fig trees get those spots on them. Is this true? How can i tell what it is? And where do these fig wasps come from to make the fruit eatable? There was a wasps nest starting to form on a tomato cage near the fig tree but something happened to it and it fell off...the wasp left and i have no idea how to tell an etable fig from one that is not etable? Any help is appreciated! |
