My fig tree is so full of figs this year I will have figs to give away and make fig jam. Most years I have figs but the first ones usually get frozen. This year the first ones that came on are about to ripen. Figs have a continuous crop.
Here is a little bit of information about figs---Have you ever considered what the fig fruit is? It's an unusual fruit. If you doubt this , ask yourself have you ever seen a fig tree bloom, you see peach trees bloom and pears ---and other fruit trees but when you eat a fig you are actually eating flower and all. It blooms from the inside and forms the fig and when you open it up it is sort of strange looking but delicious.
My fig tree is old and close to 20ft or more tall. My mother had this tree she ordered from a catalog. The tree was put at the back door of her house. It grew and grew and one day when she was not able to do all the things she once did---she asked me to come dig that tree up. You have never seen such a root but I dug it up and transplanted part of it to another place in her yard and brought the rest to my house. I put it on the west side of my cabin thinking it might not make it ----Well it has made it many years probably 20.
The parable of the fig tree is in Luke13:6-9---There is other mentions of the fig tree in the Bible.
Farmer Man pruned it one time to my horror---but it did come back.
Farmer Man is not better but I do get him to go out some but he can't take this weather and should not go out in it right now. He still thinks there is two of me.
Love,
Marie [aunt maria]
