It's fig time!

[fancytalk]

Late yesterday I ventured into the backyard to pick some lemons and check on how the figs were ripening. Thanks to my superworms I have beautiful figs.
Think tennis ball size. Yum!

Comments

[yarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

Wow. Our figs didn't ripen until September last year. Now you've made me want to go out and survey their progress. I haven't checked on them in about a week. They should be giant with all the rain we've had.

And what are superworms??

[yesimthegirl.livejournal.com]

We get about three phases of figs. Usually starting in August, then I'll get another batch in September and a small one in October. These are a bit early. I'm guessing it's because we had so much rain when the fig tree started budding.

The only reason I checked them last night is because someone at work told Ronette that there was no way we had figs the size of tennis balls. I sent her to work with about 2 dozen (the ones I could reach anyway) all somewhere between golf ball plus some and tennis ball. They're freakin' HUGE!!!!! I think they are bigger than they were last year. Now I'm just hoping that I can get off this first batch before we leave so I don't have to clean up figs in the yard.

The superworms. A while back I posted a picture of a worm that I am now referring to as a superworm (http://yesimthegirl.livejournal.com/116353.html). I figure that they must have something to do with how well this tree is doing.

[yarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah! I remember the superworm. I thought you had discovered some breakthrough in fertilizer technology. This is just as good.

Last I looked, our figs were already bigger then the ones we had last fall. I'm hoping they taste as good as they look.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I admit it. You can pick your own figs? I'm jealous.

[yesimthegirl.livejournal.com]

If I could mail them just picked and know they would arrive okay to eat, I would. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed trying to figure out how not to waste a tree full of figs.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I'd be just gorging myself on fresh figs all day but if it's a whole treeful then maybe the novelty would wear off. Maybe. I don't really know how to cook with figs since the fresh ones seemed too fabulous to do anything else with but I've heard it pairs well with meat.