Figgy

The season has come on strong and it seems that all those fig growers out there are having their own emergency trying to get the ripe ones picked before the birds, wasps and bees come on in full force.

I picked these four containers (plus as many as I could eat) in less than ten minutes. The trees are loaded with fruit. Figs tend to grow two crops a year, evidence of the second crop are only about the size of marbles and they will be ripe at the end of September or early October, unless there is a freeze. If a freeze happens, the fruit will drop before ripening. It is unusual to get a second season crop around here.

Even with picking this many figs, the neighbor called three days later and complained that I did not pick enough. Since I had the last of this batch in the dehydrator and I had all my containers empty, I hauled myself back over there and picked an even bigger supply. I’m handing them out as fast as I can between rounds of filling the dehydrator.