Fig bushes can be fickle, at least ours has been. One year it will produce well and we have enough to make several pints of fig preserves and the next year (like this one) it produces very, very few figs. These two figs are likely to be our only edible figs this year. There are less than 20 figs on the bush and as they begin to turn ripe, the birds begin pecking them.
Certainly can be tricky.. I learnt a fun fact the other day about the flowers of a fig tree.. Couldn't remember ever seeing one.. then I found out the Fruit is an inverted flower.. who knew..
I’d love it if you could just pick fig newtons instead of figs haha! We had fig trees at one of our former homes… the birds & our mailman were the only ones who enjoyed them.
