Last year long after a Summer’s decent crop of figs I heavily pruned back the fig tree, and pulled it clear of some trees it was tangled in, cut those back a bit to give it some light, and tied two if its main branches to a post to try to train it to grow in a new direction.
It’s payback time! All through the Spring this year I’ve been watching it grow back even stronger and more happy, fed by more light and the knowledge that someone cares. It was covered in several tens, mabe hundreds, of green figs when I last saw it. Now that I have returned, (first day back – straight out to the garden to see what’s up) I see that I am more or less just in time! A few have over-ripened already, and some animal or other has helped themselves to several more, but there’s more than enough for desert for me and my guest tonight at dinner. Yum!
There are many more where those came from…. Dee-licious!
-cvj
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They’re delicious! There’s an added guily pleasure to that twinge you get when biting into any fresh soft fruit: In addition to it feeling a little like biting into live flesh (er,…I imagine!), it sort of looks like that on the inside too!
Once you’ve had one, you’ll never go back!
-cvj
Mmmm! I just realized that I’ve never had a fresh fig before… now I may have to go find one! 🙂
I’ll look forward to it!
-cvj
I am playing around with Figs sauteed with Broiled Chicken and garlic in a Spanish/Mexican style dish over whole wheat cous-cous with sofritto.
As soon as I get it right I’ll pass along the recipe. It’s still not exactly there yet.
Elliot
I recall seeing quite a flourishing one in Durham, England, last year, and so it is possible quite, it would seem.
-cvj
That’s right Clifford, another success story in our continuing effort to corrupt the young and suggestible…
I’d like to finally visit now that I am on the west coast again, let’s talk privately, I am scheduled to spend January in SB so maybe that is a natural time.
As for the figs, surprising to me there are quite a few trees in town, one would think the weather is not quite right for them, but they don’t seem to mind.
If you come and visit to give us a seminar early in the semester, maybe there’ll be some figs for you to try….
I hope the Summer school went well? Lots of new young minds led from the straight and narrow into studying string theory?
-cvj
Actually, I think that the Anise would be an excellent touch?
Nice idea.
-cvj
Oh, how I envy you, figs make excellent jam if you have too many, just follow any generic jam recipe (generically those need the amount of sugar in them quartered, in fact I used to make perfectly delicious fig jams with no additional sugar at all). For some reason I am used to fig jams having a touch of anise in it, but that is an acquired taste I’m sure.