My first fig

[artichoke]

Hurray! My two trees have at long last started to ripen here in East Sussex, and judging by the numbers of green fruit all over them it is going to be a bumper year. They are 13 yr old Brown Turkey cuttings from a former garden - one is planted in a corner made by 2 walls of the house, no root constriction but also no water or encouragement, and the other is at the top of a bank where I expect it has a huge root run and more water. Both behave the same.

Has anyone tried drying figs if they have more than they can eat in the time? I am thinking of halving them and putting them in a fan oven at the lowest possible heat. I have done this with tomatoes and apple rings, and it works like a proper dehydrator.

[artichoke]

[pumkinlover]

In case anyone noticed that this thread was locked!  It was me being clumsy on a phone duhhh!

[tim]

My first too. Needed steps to reach them.

[tricia]

Tim - it was lovely to see you posting again after such a long gap. Welcome back 

I planted a 'Jordan' fig tree in a 50cm dia. x 40cm deep pot in the Spring. It has put on lovely growth, but no fruit. I think I was told it was two years old when I bought it so how long must I wait for it to produce fruit?

Lidl has figs at 24p each right now!

Tricia

[saddad]

Lovely to see you posting again Tim, but be careful on those steps...
I can't imagine having too many figs, a big site with 120 plot holders always willing to share a fresh fig!

[GrannieAnnie]

Hope you find something that works... another 10 yesterday... and at least 4 today.. had a peak while I was doing some watering nearby... 

Gonna hafta stop readin' your posts, Sadad. Drooling down my shirt every time.

[Nigel B]

Hurray! My two trees have at long last started to ripen here in East Sussex, and judging by the numbers of green fruit all over them it is going to be a bumper year. They are 13 yr old Brown Turkey cuttings from a former garden - one is planted in a corner made by 2 walls of the house, no root constriction but also no water or encouragement, and the other is at the top of a bank where I expect it has a huge root run and more water. Both behave the same.

Has anyone tried drying figs if they have more than they can eat in the time? I am thinking of halving them and putting them in a fan oven at the lowest possible heat. I have done this with tomatoes and apple rings, and it works like a proper dehydrator.

....Not exactly drying them, because they contain such huge amounts of moisture, but I cut some into quarters and covered them in sugar. Loads of it. Then it went syrupy, so I added more sugar and got more sugary liquid.
By now the smell was quite lovely. Figs getting just a bit fermenty... and sugar.

We ended up baking a couple of figgy-bread loaves with it.
The result was surprisingly like a fig-loaf, only better. It was fantastic!

I just picked twenty-odd figs again this morning. What a problem to have, too many figs 

[Squash64]

Has anyone tried drying figs if they have more than they can eat in the time? I am thinking of halving them and putting them in a fan oven at the lowest possible heat. I have done this with tomatoes and apple rings, and it works like a proper dehydrator.

Our Cats Protection lady makes fig jam from my surplus figs.
I'm not keen  on figs myself so I don't know what the jam tastes like
but I believe it's very popular with her customers.

[patchworkperson]

All this talk of figs - yum yum. We're in Tenerife at the mo & there are loads growing by the roadside. Have seen a few people picking them. Maybe I'll give them a go.

[Russell]

My 3-year-old outdoor Brown Turkey fig fruited for the first time this year. Can't tell you much about the flavour, the pigeons had the lot.

[pumkinlover]

My 3-year-old outdoor Brown Turkey fig fruited for the first time this year. Can't tell you much about the flavour, the pigeons had the lot.

Shame for you sorry!

[saddad]

Another dozen today... having not looked on Friday/Sat 

[pumkinlover]

Sent Mr Pkl up the tree today

[GrannieAnnie]

A lovely haul!

[saddad]

Only half-a-dozen yesterday, haven't checked today... 

[squeezyjohn]

One ripe fig eaten today - and only one more on the baby tree that's ripe, but man it tasted delicious!

I can't believe that these exotic fruits can grow so well in the UK!

And I can't wait to have a tree that makes loads of this divine fruit!

[saddad]

It is hard to beat a fully ripe fresh fig from the tree... 

[pumkinlover]

Just made 6lb into jam so we "hold on to that feeling"!!

[GrannieAnnie]

Just made 6lb into jam so we "hold on to that feeling"!!

salivating here

[saddad]

Another 15 today, but the mice had been at two of them...