I Don’t Give a Fig

Some years ago I bought a fig plant at the farmer’s market. I planted it in a corner of the driveway bed. It grew and grew and after a few years we got some figs in August. Then we had a year with no figs. I read up on figs and learned I needed to prune that baby back in the fall. So I took a saw to it and cut the branches way back.

The next year it grew and grew and we got some figs. Again in August. I begged friends to come take the figs. They didn’t.

Last year we got a dozen or so figs in early summer, but the bulk of them came again, in August.

So this year we have have hundreds of big figs right now. None have ripened, but if they keep growing without ripening they will be the size of baseballs. Now, with the unripe big Figs we have thousands of new babies growing on the same branches.

I have no idea when the early figs will be ready, but I bet the new babies will be ripe in August. So this is your notice that come August you need to come pick some ripe figs. Don’t pick them when they are still hard as a picked fig will not ripen. Also don’t get the sap from the stem on your skin as it can be an irritant.

I have no clue what makes this plant work as it changes every year. Now I am just hoping for cherry tomatoes from those plants. They are so much more useful than figs.