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Peak fig season in Seattle is right now.
Figs are not nearly as common in this area as apples.
Which is odd, because fig trees are actually much easier to take care of than apple trees, and are more resistant to pests as well.
Of course, you won’t get as much fruit off a fig tree as you can off an apple, but you can still get a hundred figs or more off one small tree. And the trees themselves are quite beautiful.
I got my tree from a neighbor, who gave me a small sucker off of her tree. In five years, my tree has grown to 10 feet and provides a nice shady spot in my back yard.
Like all fruit trees, figs like the sun, though they will grow in partial shade as well. (The sunnier the spot, the more compact the tree and the bigger and juicier the fruit.)
For flavor and texture, there is no other fruit quite like the fig. You can pluck one right off the tree and start munching; four bites and they’re gone. No mess.
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Some people around here complain about starlings and other birds getting into their figs. I don’t have that problem because I made a deal with the starlings in my neighborhood:
You don’t eat my figs and I won’t spray you with a hail of 50-calibre rounds.
Just teasing . . . I would never fire off a machine gun in my own back yard.
The starlings don’t know that, though.
Stupid birds.
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