The Fig Tree in 2024

 Looking at posts labelled 'Figs' and I've written something about them nearly every year because

a. I keep planting fig trees where ever we've lived and then moving ......and

b. they are such an exotic treat to eat fresh

 It's impossible to count how many figs there are on my fig tree this year, but considering it came here three years ago as a 'stick ' in a pot - second pot from the left in this photo from May 2021 -  it's doing very well.

 Three years ago I lifted a half slab from the patio, cut away the weed suppressant stuff, dug the soil under it and added some compost.

 

Here it is in July 2024.................  over 6 feet tall and wide and threatening to take over! Perhaps a bit too much leafy growth..... . I'd better look up pruning information.

And this what I wrote about figs in a post 4 years ago

 Figs originate from Mediterranean countries where they grew wild and were eaten fresh and dried as  part of a staple diet. It's thought the  Romans brought the first fruit here but the trees came quite a while later, perhaps in the early 16th century. They were first grown here as an architectural plant, growing up to 26 feet tall. The fruit rarely ripened and even now after breeding new varieties we only get one crop a year whereas in sunnier and warmer countries they have two crops in a year.

Had the first fig on the last day of July

then 3 days later there were suddenly a whole bowl full 

And they kept ripening, giving me one or two to eat every day since then - so delicious.

PS - Hooray for the return of Quizzy Mondays. Although that and mention of which celebs will be on Strictly does mean Autumn is approaching......but how does someone blind do Strictly.....the thought of it frightens me.

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Sue