"DScott" wrote in message
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| So how do I know when they're ripe? Do they get soft or darker in
color, or
| do I just know because I wake up one day and they're gone because
the jays
| got 'em first? Haha! By the way, thanks for the info.
| Dianne
|
|

You could try taking a bite out of one each day. Honestly, I don't
know how anybody
beats the critters to them. We had a neighbor who liked to make
old-fashioned fig
preserves, and somehow she managed to get firsties on her trees and on
ours, but
we've never managed. They just know.