Qiviut; Figs. You can buy some organza bags to protect the figs from insect damage, and maybe Bird damage and some Racoon or oppossum damage. Put the bag over the fig and allow it to get large and ripen. You will know its ripe when its really drooping down and you can see some “honey” at the bottom dripping out of the “osteole”. Other figs to look at beside brown turkey are Southern Favorites Celeste, Improved Celeste (From the LSU Breeding program), and Smith. There are a lot of other varieties, but those come to mind.
Thanks! I think we talked about the organza bags last year. I just have too many figs & the bush is too huge to use them ... even with bird/bee/ant predation, I ended up with lots of figs! I canned 20 jars of plain Preserves & made a specialty Rosemary Wine Fig Jam. I still have figs frozen in the freezer from last year, too.
My SIL has a fig ‘tree’ - don’t know what it is & she doesn’t remember. The figs are similar to brown turkey, but the way it grows, in a taller, less bushy tree form, is more manageable if you have a smaller space. Her fig is next to the house, mine is in the middle of a field with lots of room.
I have not seen the crows in the fig bush the last couple of days - figs are too green still. They’d rather raid my SIL’S tomato patch - she’s at the beach & the dog is with her, so the crows are taking advantage of the ‘coast being clear’ for about a week.