Anybody know anything about them

Walking Charlie this morning I found a big sprawly bush with fruit on in a field - they look like figs I thought - on closer inspection they were. Some are green and some brown.

So when are they ready to eat
Are they worth eating cos dried ones are truly YAK

they're meant to be the food of the gods
absolutely delicious apparently.

but there is something off putting about that purply colour
so I've never had the bottle to eat one

So are they ready when they are the browny/purple colour then ?

If they are I think there were a couple ready - I'll try one and report back

I think they're to be eaten when dark - not green

I love dried figs. You don't like nowt you Reedos yer funny bugger

Yeah I do, just not brassicas generally, dried fruit, marmite, green peppers, anything aniseedy, butter beans (even typing butter beans makes me shudder), Fry's Turkish Delight, marzipan, snails, Dr Peppers - think that's about it

I rest my case

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Hmmmmmmm

Fresh figs are a dream ... they will go purpley/brown ... they need to be soft NOT squishey ... eat straight from the tree with dew on them for breakfast mmmmmmm

We had a tree in the garden of the villa we rented in Sicily ... oh boy what a treeat!

I'm gonna shove me fig tree out of it's pot and let it romp around a bit, Flo.... suddenly realized I could cut it right back when it looks like going outta control... got a taste for fresh figs in lil ol man's garden.. yummmmmmmmmy!

btw, some figs are green, and some purple..... Different varieties thats all.... Eat when they come off the branch easily, ie quite soft....

I've not grown a fig but I have read that if the roots are not contained or in at least in really poor soil, they divert too much energy there and so produce less or sometimes no fruit

Absolutely correct Tara

...however abroad they do have to fight for their lives ... where we were in Sicily the soil was only inches deep and the weather gets hot hot hot ... then wet wet wet ... etc

Treat them mean to keep them keen

Well, lil ol man's was just in his flower beds and it produced loads, they were so deliscious... I've had mine in a pot for years and it's never produced anything other than a few bumps... so figure I've got nothing to lose and hopefully figs to gain...

Tried one today that was a kind of brown colour, it was OK, a bit bland, but I don't think it was properly ripe yet. I'll try again in a week or so

was reading Hugh Fearnley Wothisface book and there are good fig recipes in there.

Just been out and picked half a dozen - will have one at dinnertim and let you know

when you've got off the lav