This year I have a new house and lots of sunny corners in the yard to fill so I've gone and bought six new trees. All the basics, a pear, apple, nashi pear, plums and one I'm super excited about; a fig tree.
Needless to say, I'll be working the garden spade hard this week to dig all the holes but it will be well worth it. If you have a spare yard corner and fancy a tree laden with fresh produce then hop to it, now is the time to buy.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a very useful tip I'll store away for the future, thanks! How do they get the trees to hold back on their spring growth like that? We have a little plum tree in the backyard - a self-seeded one, it's grown lots since we moved in because it got its first major pruning! - and it blossomed quite early and is now covered with leaves.
Do you know, I've never eaten a fig before. Fig and dates, I haven't tried either. With dates it's because they're always dried and I don't like dried fruit, too sickly sweet and with a weird squishy texture. Not sure about figs, I think we just didn't have them when we were growing up and now I've lumped them in "it's too unknown" in my head, so I avoid them. Silly. What do they taste like?