Been a very busy week. Might come back to that. In the meantime above is a picture of our fruit bowl on the kitchen table. In the centre of the picture are two nicely ripe figs. They were delicious! They were picked, earlier in the week from the below fig tree in our garden. It is a Brown Turkey fig tree which I purchased from a local nursery man three summers ago. It was about nine inches high when I planted it. The tree is shown, in the picture below (just left of centre). It is about five foot high now, and full of fruit. Mostly they should ripen next summer, but there are several more that are now big enough to be eaten, a bit later this summer. So far we have had four ripe fruit this week, and another two which I plan to pick tomorrow. Although most fig trees are free standing trees, it is perfectly possible (as can be seen) to train them to a South facing fence/wall.
More (blog) later if I can find time.
4 comments:
I have just picked my first fig as well! Lovely baked with a drizzle of honey and served just warm with some clotted cream.
Sounds positively Mediteranean, Maggie. They're a lovely fruit.
We have never tried to grow figs...sounds like a good idea to me.
Hello Lori. Yes, they're reasonably easy to grow, but they do like the right surroundings, with the roots fairly confined, and on a South facing wall. to grow the one in the picture I dug a hole two feet long, by a foot wide and a foot deep, then lined it with old bricks and stones (mainly bricks). The tree was put in the resulting small pit, the roots covered, and the hole filled. It has, as you see, prospered ever since.
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