Posted on 05/07/2008 7:50:50 AM PDT by Gabz
Yay! You’ll have to ask someone else for fig recipes—I just eat them!
Do you think I will have any figs this year? When do the flower?
First off, I LOVE your articles gardengirl. I imagine they are very popular with your readers.
I haven’t been on FR, or the garden threads lately, because I’ve been gardening. I have built several flower beds, did some MAJOR landscaping jobs the past few weeks, since my strong brother is here to help me.
My brother and hubby have built me four beautiful window boxes, and of course I have them full of flowers.
Keep them watered and you should have plenty of figs this year. As for flowers, they are unnoticeable.
Thank you so much! Coming from you that means a lot! I have so much fun writing them! Judging from reader’s comments, they like them too! I did send you a couple via freepmail, but it was way back, and then I think you were sick, and then you had company, and then I got swamped at the garden center... LOL
Sounds like your beds are doing great! We got the garden planted—now if we could just keep the squirrels out! Window boxes! Ooohhh! I wish!
How’s your mom doing? Still the envy of the neighborhood?!
Gotten any fishing in? My guys went flounder gigging last night. Tide was flood high. Said they made a little money. :)
Her articles a very good! I happen to be lucky and have a copy of the paper she is published in (April) and she signed her article. Came with the fig tree she sent me.
Thanks, RD!
DManA,
In our Minnesota climate, wait awhile before pruning it back. Our spring is very late this year and it might still leaf out higher up than that. I’d wait a couple more weeks.
Last year during a yard sale my wife had we met a guy who traded some of his pure, country, local honey for a couple of things my wife was selling.
He saw my garden area and commented on it ... I told him that I was not seeing any honey bees just the big ol' Bumble Bees ... he said if I see any honey bees around here they are probably his (he lives about 20 or so miles away). That is when we started trading his honey for what he wanted of ours. Wonderful stuff!
I am missing the big ol' Bumble Bees this year. I hope they return!
Thank. I JUST bought it and planted it. I was doing a little googling and saw one web site that by pruning it back to about 10 inches encourages it to develop the trunk. Does that sound nuts?
Lots of buds swelling up here. My lilacs have a bunch of proto flowers on em. Looks like it’ll be a good year.
I would cut up the cherry tomatoes, drizzle with olive oil, salt, and roast them slowly in the oven. I made zucchini bread and brownies. I found a recipe for parmesan zucchini bread that was savory rather than sweet. I froze some as well, although zucchini gets kind of soggy frozen. If you shred zucchini and freeze it and use it for bread later, it’s pretty good though. And of course, I gave some away. This year, I’m planning to learn how to can my own tomato sauce.
I’m anxious to hear what others end up doing with their produce this summer. It’s always nice to learn new ideas and recipes.
We haven’t seen more than a handful of honeybees for years. 2 is a major sighting. Last year a local beekeeper put a hive on my boss’ farm, about 2-3 miles away as the bee flies, and we saw more than I’ve seen in forever, but still not many. I think 10 at one time was the most, and they were on the eleagnus. We have lots of people coming in and complaining about wood bees—bumbles that drill holes in any type of wood. i hate to kill any bees but they will destroy porches, siding, barns, etc if you don’t get rid of them.
Side note—wouldn’t wood bees be great if you could say—Hey, you! I need a hole right here, this deep!
The big black and yellow Bumbles Bees are what I have been seeing. And yes, they do make their homes in any kind of wood. I have shovel, hoe and rake handles that have these beautiful and perfect round holes in them produced by Bumble Bees. I had some 2x4’s stored in a overhead rack in my car port they put some beautiful round hole in them. They got evicted when I realized where the saw dust was coming from!
I also canned a few tomatoes, not many, just a little kosher salt and some lemon juice and then processed in a water bath.
Never done the canning before. We opened one jar about two weeks ago and had them as a side ... My oh ... My! Great and fresh tasting, my wife was impressed!
SUPER!!!!!!!!
That's it --- after reading the exchanges about figs between the 2 of you the past few weeks, I'm just going to have to try them...........just have to figger out how to convince hubby :)
Red, I'm really swamped this weekend, but if you remind me next week I'll pull together some fig recipes for you.
The Ball (canning jars) website has great info and they have what is considered the bible of books on canning, the exact name escapes me, but I'm sure it is on their site, just google it!
Actually canning tomato sauce is not as difficult/complicated as canning just plain tomatoes.
I’m anxious to hear what others end up doing with their produce this summer.
With any luck, I'm going to be selling a lot of mine, either fresh or as jelly or fresh salsa. Lots of folks seem to like hot pepper jelly, but can't be bothered making it, and I love making it!
It’s always nice to learn new ideas and recipes.
Recipes? I love recipes, and I would love your recipe for your zuccini parmesan bread!!!
I have no idea what I am doing with fig trees, other than I hope to get at least two figs off of them so my wife and I can taste them fresh again! Crazy?
Not crazy at all!
As a teenager I spent my summers in Sarasota, FL. My grandparents’ nextdoor neighbor had a fig tree by the side of the house that faced our lanai. We were welcome to those figs whenever we wanted them. They loved the tree itself, but didn’t care for figs.
My grandparents are now gone, but my Aunt still lives there. I will have to ask her if the fig tree is still there.
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