[AG-EQ] Figs

Tue Sep 3 13:33:12 UTC 2019

Wow, a baobab, or maybe a banyan, growing in my own backyard!  Sounds so exotic!
Daniella, a fig is a fruit about the size and shape of a small egg, but with a rough skin.  I put the whole fruit in my mouth, nip off the stem, and eat the rest.  They taste like fruity honey to me.  The trick is to pick one at exactly the right time.  The slightly green ones aren't as sweet, and, if they get too ripe, they just drop off the tree onto the ground.  They're a soft fruit, so they don't store well, except dried.  Mine never make it that far.  Maybe someday, if I get a bigger harvest, but, for now, I just gobble them up straightaway.
I never had a fig either until I moved to New York.  It's just warm enough to grow them here, with protection during the winter.  I think the Italian immigrants loved them and started planting them where they could.  
Protecting them over winter is a bit of a chore, but, for me, the fruit is worth the trouble.
Tracy

-----Original Message-----
From: AG-EQ [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel via AG-EQ
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2019 10:52 PM
To: Daniella Roccasalvo; Agricultural and Equestrean Division List
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Subject: Re: [AG-EQ] Figs

The only figs that I have eaten were the supermarket dried sort, but I would imagine that if there
be * dried figs, there must also be * fresh ones!but never having had one, I can't give any
mouth-watering description of their palatability;  however,if their opinion was sort, I am sure that 
all frugivorous animals would go into raptures over their succulence!
Tracey said that hers:  or were they someone else's had multiple trunks.  This would be right as the 
fig is of the baobab, or is it banyan?  I always get them mixed up!  species.

Jewel

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From: "Daniella Roccasalvo" <daniellaroccasalvo1998 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 1:51 PM
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Cc: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [AG-EQ] Figs

Hi, in Ontario we use the Celsius system as well.
We just finished summer well we still have a few weeks left as I said previously but it’s starting
to get cooler about 21° with no humidity right now and about 10° at night again all in Celsius.
When we have humidity it sometimes gets 35 to 40° in the summer so we have our air conditioning on I
personally like just sitting outside in it but I can definitely see how weeding or doing work would
be a challenge.
What exactly is a fig? I've heard of them but I've never seen or felt one before.
Daniella

> On Sep 2, 2019, at 9:12 PM, Jewel via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Tracey!  ignore the question I posed in my previous post for, on reflection, I realised that, as
> you
> were speaking of fahrenheit temperatures, there is no such thing as 10+:  that would be 42
> wouldn't
> it and minus 10F is near enough to the 5C that I said Southland gets occasionally, but those
> occasions, at least in the Mataura River valley are getting fewer and farther between as each
> winter
> passes.
>
>           Jewel
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 12:02 PM
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> Cc: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [AG-EQ] Figs
>
> Tracey!  When you say that, in NJ, winter temps can go down to 10F, is that minus or plus?  The
> Southland winter is getting warmer and warmer, so that now, a morning frost of more than 5C is
> very
> rare indeed!
> Having little regard for the rest of the world, I say "If this is global warming:  let me have
> more
> of it!"  mind you, the warming is not specific to winter:  the summer temps are also on the way
> up,
> and now, I find that a day of 25C is about as warm as I can tolerate, so those days are spent
> inside
> the house, and I leave any vigorous work until it has cooled down a bit:  like going out into the
> weed patch to deal death unto its residents at 3am when it is nice and cool!
>
> Jewel
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Tracy Carcione via AG-EQ" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 12:38 AM
> To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: Re: [AG-EQ] Figs
>
> Hi Jewel.  How cold does it get in your winter?
> Here in New Jersey, we get down to around 10 degrees F, but that doesn't
> happen too often.  Last winter was long and cold, but my fig tree came
> through well in my little greenhouse tent.  I bought a fig called Chicago
> Hardy, which can die back all the way to the roots and still come back.  It
> didn't die down that far last winter, so it came back well and quicker than
> last year, when it did die all the way back.  It's a lot more like a shrub
> or bush than a tree, with lots of trunks and branches coming out from where
> it died back to.  Do fig trees in warmer climates look more like trees?
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2019 9:51 PM
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>
> Yesterday was, for the Southern Hemisphere, the first day of spring, so I
> haven't inspected any of
> my treelings since the beginning of winter, but at that point, the
> indications of future figs were
> pretty faint, if detectable at all, but who knows what the coming glorious
> summer has in store after
> a very mild winter.
> My thoughts are with the storm-tossed residents of the Bahamas!!!
>
>        Jewel
> From: "Tracy Carcione via AG-EQ" <ag.
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> Subject: [AG-EQ] Figs
>
> Hey Jewel, did you get any figs from your little tree?  Mine are producing
> at a great rate.  There are a lot yet to come, too.  Sadly, many of those
> will not have time to get ripe.  Wish I had a real greenhouse, or, better
> yet, a conservatory as part of my house.
>
> Tracy
>
>
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