Happy Friday!
I looked at the weather forecast this morning.
The forecast?
Lots of figs.
I sneak out to the fig trees before Shelley leaves for work. Or the boys go to school.
That way I get to eat some too.
Pictured above: Capelas figs. Wasn't a hint of colour a week ago. Now we're eating figs.
September rolls around and gardeners sometimes feel discouraged. Figs don't seem to be ripening. But then late-summer warm weather rolls in, and they can take off.
More on ripening figs in the article below.
Elsewhere in the garden this week, a nice batch of cucuzzi coming along. If cucuzzi is new to you, it's an edible gourd. Used like a summer squash. (I like them in a curry.)
My cucuzzi pouted for the first half of the summer. My fault. I moved them out too early this spring...and they hate cold. Like melons, better to start later than to rush them.
What’s new in your garden?
Steve
PS. Stopped by Mount Pleasant Cemetery here in Toronto earlier this week to look at trees. If you're in Toronto and love trees, it's worth a visit. When I taught college classes, I'd go there for tree pictures. Above is a pawpaw tree...and in the foreground are pawpaw suckers.
Mature pawpaw trees sucker a lot. Left to their own devices, you get a thicket of genetically identical trees. All from suckers. (But with pawpaw, we need another genetically distinct tree to get fruit!)
PPS. Sneak peek of the cover of my upcoming book on olives, below!
