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  • From: "Gloria Anderson Haswell" <gloria@aquaponicfarm.com>
  • To: "'Healthy soil and sustainable growing'" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] How to grow figs
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:21:34 -0500

I do not like the brown turkey figs. The bottom of the fruit is open so the
bugs can crawl in when the fruit is ripening. There are many other
varieties that are closed end and taste great.

Gloria

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Barb came across this piece from the U.K. on figs. Anyone have advice or
experience?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/main.jhtml?xml=/gardening/2007/07/27/ga
rden-grow-fig127.xml
How to grow figs

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 27/07/2007
John Cushnie offers his tips on growing figs

Ficus carica, or 'Brown Turkey' fig
Rich pickings: Ficus carica, also known as the 'Brown Turkey' fig

Adam and Eve may have found that the leaves of the fig spared their
blushes, but it's the fruit that gets me excited.

There is little better than the fig tree's produce, so fresh it is still
warm from the sun, straight from your garden. Dried figs are equally
nutritious: if you have a bumper crop then dry some of the fruit in a hot
press or drying cupboard. If you turn them daily they will be preserved in
six to eight days.

The best variety of fig tree to go for is Ficus carica 'Brown Turkey',
whose fruit ripen in late August, and have a reddish-brown skin, red flesh
and a sweet flavour.

You can also try F. carica 'Brunswick', which ripens a few weeks earlier,
and whose greeny-yellow skinned fruit have a sweet tasting pink flesh. F.
carica 'White Marseilles' ripens in early September with fruit that have a
light-green skin and green flesh.







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