Figs

juellie1962

13 years ago

Sorry if this is a repeat topic; but can someone please tell me about figs. I've seen quite a few recipes lately featuring figs.

Where are they grown? Just in the south? What is the season for them? I have never had an inclination to eat one, but suddenly they are intriguing me!

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YogaLady1948
13 years ago
I do not know any of that, just that I love them and eat them fresh and dried~~in Marmalade form on veggie burgers or cheese sandwhices YUMMY!
kayjones
13 years ago
Oh, they are SO GOOD - hot from the sun, fresh off the tree in my yard!!!

Here's an article, with references, from the Christian Science Monitor, telling you all you need to know about figs:

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Gardening/diggin-it/2008/0919/how-far-north-will-figs-grow

Here is a link that might be useful: How far north will fig trees grow?
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juellie1962
Original Author
13 years ago
thanks for that article Kay. I don't want to grow them, i want to know how to buy them. I'm in Wisconsin; do I buy them in a grocery store in the produce aisle? Farmer's Market? When are they "in season"?

Yogalady - sounds like you can put figs on ANYTHING! Grilled Cheese?? mmmm.... and what do you mean "marmalade form". Do you buy it in the jelly/jam section, or make your own? I must try these things now! :)
glenda_al
13 years ago
My favorite fruit of all fruits are figs!

Love them straight off the tree. Yummy!

I make a wonderful fig jam!
YogaLady1948
13 years ago
LOL I just reread what I wrote~~I do not know why I used the word 'form'~~I buy it in a jar at Sprouts~~we have a restaurant in the city over called Eureka Burger~~they make a beet burger, I love it and get it with the fig marmalade and goat cheese served with sweet potato fries YUM!
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
13 years ago
I love figs, we had a huge fig tree back on the farm. I would go pick them and eat them right from the tree but you had to watch out for ants that had crawled into the center hole and the bees and wasps.
Last year one of my neighbors in the garden club brought me a huge basket full of fresh figs from her trees. You have to beat the birds and coons and other critters to them, they will eat the tree bare.
I bought a beautiful box of big purple figs at Costco last summer and they were the best I have purchased so check out the refrigerator section at your Costco. I see them in the grocery store too but they are so expensive.

Mom used to make wonderful fig preserves, I like them best just raw, pick it and eat it.
hounds_x_two
13 years ago
Not so crazy about fresh figs, but I do like dried figs.
I did enjoy some wonderful fresh figs in Greece a coupe of years ago.
maire_cate
13 years ago
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glenda_al
13 years ago
I had fig ice cream in Italy few years back.
patti43
13 years ago
When I saw "Figs" I first thought it was Glenda posting. Figs are really sweet and a little sticky. You would find them in the produce section--at least that's the only place I've ever seen them.
kathi_mdgd
13 years ago
A lot of my neighbors grow them here in S.Ca. dh and i don't like them,so we don't grow any.We like fig newton cookies,but that's about all we like made with them.

As patti said,they are really sweet.

Speaking of fruit,i had my first fresh apricot right off the tree today.Both my neighbor and I have trees,and today when I was watering plants,an apricot from his tree had dropped into our yard,so I picked it up,washed it off and enjoyed it.
Love fresh fruit.
Kathi
juellie1962
Original Author
13 years ago
I'm not sure I'd like them if they're that sweet. but the southern living magazine has a few good sounding recipes (fig pizza!). I need to try one and see if I like it. Just had no clue where to even buy them!
lambsear12
13 years ago
Juellie- Figs trees are not hard to grow. I have (2) here in NY-Zone 6a. They are very resilient and almost like weeds. They do not require spraying of any kind to produce nice fruit. If they die off to the ground (due to frost/freeze) they grow back, often 6-8' in one year. I have hard pruned mine to stumps (to manage their size) and they come back and still fruit. If you find a fig tree, you can take a cutting, place it in water and it will root. They do better in full sun and protected from the winter wind. Some people wrap them in the winter, I don't because they are protected by a dense hedge. Try your local nursery and see what they have. You can always start one in a pot temporarily.
glenda_al
13 years ago
I bought a fig tree cutting at a 450 mile yard sale years ago.

Planted in my backyard and it is producing abundantly.

Unfortunately I no longer live there and son lets the birds get them :o(
joyfulguy
13 years ago
Hi glenda,

Become a bird, maybe ... even if just for a day?

o j