[Ag-eq] Figs

[Susan Roe]

I think we're gonna look into planting a few turkey fig trees next year.  A 
friend who works with my husband gave him a nice zip lock bag full of his 
figs.  They were nice and plump, but due to so much rain, they were not 
quite as flavorful as they should have been, so they were a bit water 
logged.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 8:42 AM
Subject: [Ag-eq] Figs


> My fig harvest started yesterday.  I never had figs before I came out 
> East, but I love them now.  There's about an hour's grace between when 
> they're ready to eat and when some critter finds them, but it's worth the 
> trouble of checking often.  They're really big and plentiful this year, 
> too.
> When my fig tree was small, I kept it in a big pot, and put bags of leaves 
> around it in the winter.  Then I got a pop-up greenhouse, and planted the 
> fig where I could put the greenhouse over it in the winter.  Last year, 
> the fig was too big for the greenhouse, so it was on its own, and it did 
> fine. Some of the branch tips die back every winter, with new branches 
> growing farther down, so it's more like a big bush than a tree.  It's easy 
> to reach even the highest fruit, but I have to walk all around its wide 
> self to find everything..  And sometimes the squirrels and birds find the 
> fruit before I do.
> I'm not worrying about preserving figs, though I know they dry well.  But 
> I'm only getting 2 or 3 a day, so I just eat them right up.
> I am getting good fruit crops this year, for some reason.
> Tracy
>
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