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Gardening

Laffy Kat

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1. One of my mee-maws had a fig tree in her back yard.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Sep 4, 2023, 04:27 PM

Sep 2023

She made the BEST fig preserves in the world. I miss those.

Also, I learned that wild fig trees utilize fig wasps to pollinate and make the fruit. They dissolve the wasp with special enzymes and it becomes part of the fruit. Commercial fig producers use another method, but I think the dead wasp goo in wild figs is so cool. That's probably what made my mee-maw's figs so good.

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The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, [View all] elleng Sep 2023 OP

One of my mee-maws had a fig tree in her back yard. Laffy Kat Sep 2023 #1

My mother loved figs. TexasTowelie Sep 2023 #2

When I was 14, back in 1965, I are way too many... 3catwoman3 Sep 2023 #3

Fresh figs are so wonderful!! Lunabell Sep 2023 #4

have had three singles in my life Kali Sep 2023 #5

I guess I was told wrong, lol. Lunabell Sep 2023 #6

maybe it's the ones mentioned above that need the wasps to polinate Kali Sep 2023 #7

I put dried figs in my smoothies. Yum! Beakybird Sep 2023 #8