7 Responses to And So It Begins…

  1. Clifford says:

    Yes…. and even better to eat them!

    -cvj

  2. Brunsli says:

    How great to celebrate figs year after year!

  3. Clifford says:

    Just had another tasty four…. I’ve left a corner of the tree to the beetles, and they seem to be leaving another corner to me.

    By the way, it is a complete accident that the title of this post is exactly (down to the three little dots I agonized over) the same as one I did last year at around the same time – also about the beginning of the fig crop. After I did the post, I saw that the system was adding a “2” to the URL (which is automatically constructed from the title),a dn I could not figure out why. So I did a search, and there it was. And I thought I was being so fresh and slightly arch by choosing that title… only to find that I’d done exactly the same thing before. Weird.

    -cvj

  4. pedant says:

    For the first time I can recall, we have had two fruitings in a year on the fig tree in the garden. And the first lot (fertilised last autumn) are rather tasty right now. An Indian summer will give us a ripened second crop (fertilised in the really hot April – May period) in the late autumn. And not a beetle is sight, thus far.

  5. Clifford says:

    I’ve seen a couple of the (beautiful) beetles here too. But live and let live, so far. They get some, I get some. Let’s hope it remains in balance.

    -cvj

  6. Amara says:

    Gorgeous! Some people are sadly having beetle problems with theirs.

  7. David Levine says:

    Mmmmmm. Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiigs! glah glah glahhh …. (Homer Simpson)

    That is

    one

    beautiful

    fig!