We've had a bumper crop of Brown Turkey Figs this year .... enough to make Fig Butter for the very first time .... it turned out just delicious!
Posted on 08/31/2012 10:10:05 AM PDT by greeneyes
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We've had a bumper crop of Brown Turkey Figs this year .... enough to make Fig Butter for the very first time .... it turned out just delicious!
It appears that this would be an excellent weekend to fire up a batch of salsa incorporating a most tasty batch of my gorgeous ‘Clint Eastwood’s Rowdy Red’ tomatoes...
That's what I thought also. I hope all is going well for her and all other FReepers in the path of the storm.
Those look great! Mine are about the size of a nickle.
My aunt was telling me there are smaller Italian figs .... maybe that is what they are? The Brown Turkey figs are ‘large’.
LOL!! Clint was definitely ‘good’ at pointing out the ‘bad and the ugly’!
...nothing ‘bad and ugly’ about these tomatoes...nom, nom, nom. :-)
Our tomato plants quit producing a couple of weeks ago .... so sad .... nothing is as good as home-grown tomatoes! You are lucky to still have them :-)
I had the same problem. It seems to have gotten better since I started using this
http://www.critter-repellent.com/squirrel/squirrel-repellent.php
I fight until the first, fatal frost...
Mine are also Brown Turkey Figs, but I’ve had some problems. Several different plants (2 Loquat, 2 Rose of Sharon, 1 grape, and a Wisteria)around the back of my house have died and one of the figs barely recovered. The other fig trees may be susceptible to “whatever” affected the other plants. We think it’s a fungus and have applied anti-fungal treatments. So far, so good, but the fruits are real small.
Sorry to hear about your plants dying .... our biggest problem this year has been a family of crows (2 adults, 5 juveniles) that have discovered the bush and as soon as a fig gets ripe, they are on it! The last time I chased them off, they sat in a nearby tree and fussed at me while I picked off all the figs that were showing any color .... the figs continue to ripen in the house, especially if I don’t refrigerate them. Our bush is definitely improving with age ... bigger & better crops the larger it grows with year being the best so far.
I am so jealous of your Brown Turkey figs!
I wish I could send you some .... but they’re all in fig butter and the few we have left aren’t going to last the weekend! This is a VERY special bush, not only because it is doing so well, but because my favorite uncle gave it to us - he is now deceased. Every time I look at it, I think of him. He was a super-talented guy ... only a high school education & could do math in his head like a whiz, but didn’t read all that well. He grew up in the country in NC and his farm boy background gave him the skills to fix anything as well as a major green thumb. He grew all sorts of fruit & nut trees, berry bushes, raised quail & rabbits, had a great garden, made home-made wine and was a fairly major beekeeper (farmers would call him for hives to pollinate their fields). He was a good cook and came up with all sorts of work-saving gadgets around his place. If he didn’t know how to do/fix something, he had a friend who did. He had a kind heart and spent a good deal of his time helping others. I know he would be very happy that the Brown Turkey Fig bush is doing so well. :-)
oh noos!
I’m glad you posted that. I will stop squishing them, too.
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