"songbird" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
My figs are ripe. Not enough to make jam or do anything substantial with
this main crop, but enough to enjoy fresh figs and ice cream. Delish.

i've never even seen a fresh fig before.
fig newton cookies are the only way i've
ever had them.

Well I have no idea what a 'fig newton' might be so I guess we are both in
the dark about some thing figgy.

what are they like?
how would you eat one?

That is a hard question but I'll try to answer. Fresh figs are much softer
and squishier than dried figs - about as soft as a ripe avocado. They have
a fig flavour but not as strong as dried figs. They have lots of the tiny
seeds but the seeds aren't as noticeable as in they are in the dried figs.

To me they are a real luxury food because it is almost impossible to buy
ripe figs since they don't travel well. You can eat then fresh just as you
would any fruit, you can eat them with a mild cheese on a fruit platter
along with a scattering of fresh dates, you can make them into jam (and fig
jam is one of THE best jams IMO). As to trying to describe the flavour of
than it being figgy, I can't give yo a clue because it is in a class of its
owm. We ate our fresh ones jsut sliced and on top of vanilla ice cream.


we might finally get more rain this coming week,
i'll believe it when i see it hit the ground... repeated
frosts, but the strawberries are trying to bloom anyways.
peas planted early are doing fine, same with onion seeds
that sprouted. turnips seedlings mostly knocked out,
will replant in a month. should get out and plant more
peas since they are doing ok. maybe they can grow and
mostly finish by the time i want the space for planting
something else. garlic remains completely happy and
doing well. 27F doesn't seem to even give it pause.

flowers doing ok, lack of rain means i've done a
little watering i normally wouldn't do, and frosts
have knocked down some of the earlier daffodils and
tulips, but the rest are looking better now and it
should be ok for a week. no heavy frosts in the
forecast. i might be able to get some decent pictures
if i can get out today.

Sounds quite promising for a good Spring for you.


whereabouts are you (roughly )? how cold does it
usually get there at the worst and is it for long?

South Eastern NSW and it gets cold from late April to about the beginning of
October..

here
in mid-michigan it gets down to maybe -5 - -20F and
that might last a few weeks or a month some years. the
past few seasons have been quite mild.

Here it can gets down to about -9C and that will freeze the pipes. It
regulalry gets downt o -4C over winter. Not cold by your standards, but
cold by Oz standards.