FOOD OF THE GODS
Dec 22, 2021
4 minutes
Words Jennifer Stackhouse
A promising crop of figs is starting to swell on my huge backyard fig tree. It’s a ‘Brown Turkey’ and it has already had one crop.
Sadly, in my cold Tasmanian climate, this developing crop will come to nothing as the long hot days of summer give way to the cooler days of autumn. Despite knowing that this is the outcome, I look longingly at the figs hoping this season it will be different.
In most climates, figs produce two crops a year. The main crop, which is forming now in summer, ripens in autumn. That long, slow ripening period produces sweet, juicy fruit.
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