Hi all! Been a while. Hope you haven't forgotten me :)

 So last month, in October, I checked out all the various fig fruit growing on a few trees I have and decided to give up. No one was near ripe and all warmth was gone. I lifted the plastic from the make-shift greenhouses and called it a season. 

Today we went out to clean up the yard from all the fall leaves and just overall tidy things up. I walked by 'fig row' and saw a fig on the ground (in the container). I picked it up and it was soft. Very soft. I split it open. Looked.... surprisingly ripe. Tasted it a little. Sweet! Crunchy seeds! Very much over ripe and falling apart in my hands. Not a texture I am crazy about so I gave it to the pups - but hey! November! In Seattle! With a very much over ripe fig! Weird, right?

It is a breba Italian Honey


The soggy insides - set up on a pumpkin as a make-shift table


The girls waiting patiently for their treat. I would have happily eaten it myself but it was too far gone for my tastes.

hope they don't learn to jump and get more from the trees in the future..

That has already been a big topic of discussion. Next year there will be barriers of some sort. There isn't a fruit or veggie they will turn their noses at. I was surprised they didn't find it sooner themselves.

Congratulations!  Never give up!

Doggies!!!  : )

i had to take off last two figs on my Paradiso Gene last Sat. since i moved the trees into my garage, two figs on the PG ripen, and i didn't even know it. it was gone beyond where i can eat. too much stuff growing on it. i threw it at the tree rat that was watching me.

Hey Nichole,
you are so lucky to still be getting figs.
those last unexpected ones do taste good....

What kind of dogs?

Your dogs are very cute! 

On the subject of ripe figs late, it's more like your September here now in November.  My VdB trees are loaded with ripening figs.  I went out this morning to prune some green cuttings for a trade I'm working on, and YIKES!  I couldn't find one branch without figs!  Finally, I found one with very tiny figs, and decided to sacrifice that one branch because no way will those little tiny nubs ever get ripe!

Everyone else expecting cuttings from me will have to wait until I eat all those figs and the tree goes dormant.

I hope I don't let them get too ripe to eat!  Thanksgiving promise to self!  Check those figs daily!!

Suzi

i think it's weird that fig ripened. It hasn't been warm or anything around here...

Jack - they are Staffordshire Bull Terriers

Best.  Pups.  Ever.

So jealous of your kids!

I tell you I made a mistake giving one of my dogs a fig. Now she cases the tree constantly looking figs (all gone for now, next year I'm in trouble though). She never bothered the tree until I gave her the fig. Strangely as soon as she smells sugars in anything else fruiting in the yard she eats them, fig was the only one that got a pass until I fed it to her. 

Angelic even ;)



ohjustaguy - I have pictures and videos of my pups going crazy in my garden. Tomatoes, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, and all the fruits and berries. We're house hunting right now and I have decided I will have clear separation. The front yard will have my raised veggie beds and the various fruit trees and berry bushes. The back yard will be fully fenced and completely separate. I don't mind sharing but dang! They don't share! 

Nicole!!  House hunting!!!!  Didn't you just finish your backyard this year to be just the way you wanted it??  Before you put stuff n your front yard read the post title fig tree and fruit tree owners!!  You may rethink your idea.

I love the pictures you post while they patiently wait!  The expression on their faces is priceless! 

House hunting!  YIKES!  Prices are going up and expectations are going down here in Southern California.  We should have moved much faster, so now among all 50,000 bargain hunters, we are searching for that acreage!  Good luck Nicole!!

Suzi

Yeah I know everyone is giving me grief over the back yard thing. But I think we may do things a bit differently. Right now we are leaning towards buying land and building which will slow things down a bit. I'm hoping to buy land within the next 6 months but we won't build for another 2-3 years - financially it would have to happen that way. But because the market is turning around (yup - prices are going up here too) I want to snag the land NOW. We're still deep in the research part. Since I want at least an acre that puts us a bit more rural than we are currently. I don't think having strangers come into my front yard will be as much of a problem compared to city or suburbia living. But I'd rather deal with that and get SOME of my harvest compared to practically none I get with my pups ;)

One to 2 acres is manageable, but more is a friggin farm and a lot of work.  We looked into building on land, and we may do that.  Those manufactured houses are awesome!  Unbelievable what is happening out there.  I sort of thought that the housing market would take a dip with the election, but it hasn't!  I want so much to believe the nay sayers that the economy in 2013 will dive!  I doubt it!  A house on an acre listed for $392,000 just sold for $420,000!!  Can't compete with that!  No way!!

Good luck to you and me, Nicole!!  Those doggies are so dammn cute!!

suzi

Thanks Suzi! I hope your hunt is fruitful! I'm aiming for 1-2 acres. It can be more than that if it's wooded and doesn't require maintanence. Nice for privacy actually - but prices will determine what exactly we get. Location location location! The main thing I want is level. I do agility with one of my pups and I require flat space for all that equipment! Not running in the rain on a hill. Nope.