Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Figs

Mean people would have preferred to stay in Hades today rather than Empire. We walked at 7:30 a.m.  There was not a hint of a breeze. The dogs walked one lap and almost took the door down to get inside.

Jilda and I did a few more laps. We were almost to the back fence when we decided to walk a few hundred yards to check on the fig tree.

Last year the bush came our in early spring trying to get a jump on summer but a late killing frost turned a bumper crop of figs into a handful of fruit that we ate warm from the bush in August.

This year, in August we will have enough figs to feed the county. Yum.




9 comments:

  1. I was never into figs but my Tante Marlene. Who just died on Saturday, loves them.

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    1. I love them. I can pick and eat them off the bush.

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  2. I love figs. Darn tootin!

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  3. As a child it was my job to clean the half-eaten (by birds) figs up from beneath the tree. Half-eaten, squishy and mouldy. To this day I cannot face a fresh fig.

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  4. Not a fig fruit person, but my favorite cookie is the Fig Newton. Now I am looking at that name and must find out why it is a Newton.....
    Sherry & jack up in Lancaster

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  5. You make me long for a big piece of fig filled pastry.

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  6. Eating a ripe fig like one eats soft boiled egg is heavenly. I need to buy some today.

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  7. Your fig tree looks very healthy. It must like the heat. Good luck with the harvest.
    Hugs, Julia

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  8. It has been so humid lately that I didn't think it could get worse, but it has. We had our usual afternoon thunderstorm. Since it ended the air has looked a lot like gray soup.

    Love,
    Janie

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