Friday Figs. The Brown Turkey Fig tree is loaded with these moist, plump, sweet figs. They haven’t gone unoticed by the birds. There is a beautiful male Oriole that has chosen the tree as a favorite food source. I’m willing to share in exchange for the visual joy his yellow orange and contrasting black feathers bring. Please remember to use the PicLens which highlights the details of the photos.
14 Comments to FRIDAY FIGS
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My figs probably won’t bear until next year. Sigh. But, they
transplanted pretty well and are settling in.[Reply]
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Yum Miriam. Enjoy your beautiful Figs.
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I need to move to California, I am so jealous. Figs are my candy!
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Here it’s strawberries, blackberries, dewberries, raspberries. The first figs are processed, with a 2nd crop late this fall just like with raspberries, persimmons, honeysuckle and a few other wild fruits. Pears are heavy on the trees. Peaches are too, with a slime crop of apples this year. Looks like a good crop of walnuts, beechnuts, hickory nuts, the pecans are a bit off this season: probably due to early floods and too much rain early.
Earlier I dried 9 pounds of figs. Sun dried them since they store and last longer sun dried as compared to dehydration. Made a few tinctures, extracts. Dried a few pounds of early fig leaf and mulberry leaf. Elderberry is just now in bloom. It will be middle of august when wild harvesting them arrives tame ones will be ready to harvest the first of august. I do not store figs and dried strawberries together in the same flour sack.
Jon
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I am SO anticipating ripe figs. My fig was planted about 1940 by my
grandfather who adored figs). Each year I eat my weight in figs, dry a
couple gallons and share.Those are some great looking figs!
David
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Just made 3 jars of figs, Our trees are loaded…But I know what figs look like I thought you would sent a photo of the beautiful bird…I haven’t seen them here in Texas.
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Miriam Admin Reply:
June 7th, 2011 at 7:58 AMFaye, Don’t think I don’t want to get picture of the Oriole. I’ve been trying but it is just too fast for me. I doesn’t stay in one place for more than a second. But today I lucked out and got a few pictures even though they aren’t in focus. I’m posting them with the figs.
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Miriam, these make me hungary for mine and they don’t ripen here until late
August thru frost. We eat ours as soon as they ripen, don’t get many for
anything else. One year I did manage to make some fig preserves. Beautiful
fruit! Do you have Pawpaw trees too??[Reply]
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Mmmm. . . yum. . . love fresh figs, and what I buy has to be flown here!
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OH, “brown turkey” fig is what my great grandparents (who both died in my adulthood) farm and beside granddaddy’s workshop there was a huge fig plant that someone had given momma josie. we’d go out there and eat them till we were sick! she and i both loved figs and sweet things! so to my great grandparents, momma josie and granddaddy (Josephine Henderson Huckeba and Charlie Huckeba), great teachers in my life, i dedicate these sweet gifts of the fig tree!
PS. TO WARD OFF THE BIRDS (IF YOU WANT TO) HANG PLASTIC SILVER CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS ON THE FIG TREE AND IT’LL TAKE CARE OF MOST OF THE BIRDS
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When we lived in Israel, we had the same fig tree in front of our house. When the figs were ripe all the kids on my street would come to pick figs from our tree. We had a feast. However, we ate too many figs and the rest you can imagine.
I still love figs very much.
Have a great weekend.
Love, Anuga[Reply]
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Wow! Cool! Thank you! I’ve never seen any.. I appreciate your pix.
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oh man !! if it aint Figs it’s Bananas – the cornucopia of yumminess you have.
i can for sure scarf on the bananas or figs…[Reply]
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Yours are 1-2 weeks ahead of mine. Make some jam. Eat out of hand. Enjoy!
-Paw, Doomer in Chief
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