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Jolly

What the hell are you going to do with figs from five trees?!?!? The one I had in LA was small and still produced more than I and my friends could eat.

When I was a lad, we'd pick five trees. Wash 'em, bag 'em, put them in the frig or freezer. Then, we'd make preserves when we had enough.. You remember those big old Magnalite roasters? We'd have two of those cookin' on the stove and one electric roaster cookin'.

Put them up in pint jars. The only thing better than fig preserves on a hot, cathead biscuit is mayhaw jelly and fresh cow butter. Or maybe that was cane syrup mixed with Jersey cow cream in the bottom of the plate...You want that consistency just right...Right where when you drag a hot buttermilk biscuit through it, it'll tear the biscuit half in two.

Shucks, that's worth milking a cow with hairy teats...

Mik

@Horace said in First fig:

@Mik said in First fig:

What the hell are you going to do with figs from five trees?!?!? The one I had in LA was small and still produced more than I and my friends could eat.

My plan is to become fatter.

OK. That's gonna take a lot of figs.

89th

He’ll figure it out

Horace

@Jolly said in First fig:

That's a good lookin' fig. I'm envious, the hard freeze we had did a number on my fig trees.

I think they're good raw (the dogs love them), cooked in a fig cake or made into preserves. I'll try to dig out mawmaw's old recipe for you.

I'd love a fig cake recipe.

Horace

I put two more in the ground, making three total in the ground and one in a pot. They are getting good sun, and it’ll get better through mid June as the shadow from the fence recedes.

Horace

I dug big holes for them in the useless clay, and filled with handmade soil of peat, vermiculite, and compost. Now we will be throwing away clay for the next six months and causing hernias for the garbage men.

jon-nyc

I missed this thread first time around. How many did you end up getting last year?

89th

Thanks for the update Is there any risk of the root system and the side of the house under the surface? Or is the house on a slab and therefore no worries?

Jolly

Figs have shallow roots. Should be no worries.

Horace

@jon-nyc said in First fig:

I missed this thread first time around. How many did you end up getting last year?

I had some figs ripening on one or more of the trees, for four months after this first fig in June. I guess I got a couple hundred total, most of them very good. This year will be better. Eventually I will have more figs than I want, which is a lot.

Horace

@89th said in First fig:

Thanks for the update Is there any risk of the root system and the side of the house under the surface? Or is the house on a slab and therefore no worries?

The house is on a slab, which you would know if you had followed by award winning documentary series of posts last year about the house across the street being built.

89th

I do remember that house, because of my photoshop work making it much more pointy.

Horace

@89th said in First fig:

I do remember that house, because of my photoshop work making it much more pointy.

I remember that chilling FBI surveillance tower.

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