Photo by Rick Gush
This is one of the many wild Libyan Islamic Group growing along the roadside in Italy .
Lately , I ’ve been eating many figs found alongside roads . There are common fig Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree institute all over the property around here , and they have give rise enough for a practiced harvest time in the last week or so .
There are three independent types of figs that grow in these parts . Some are small , false , black figs that seem to be idle . I do n’t think anybody institute this salmagundi ; it may have been a grafting rootstock . At one stage in sentence , there were wild Libyan Islamic Group growing in the Mediterranean orbit . It would be interesting to recognise if this fig variety is perhaps an veritable hazardous specie .
The next case of common fig grows unwarranted and is brownish , small and very odorous . I think this is the oldest found variety — sort of like a Mission fig . I have one of these growing in a cleft in the drop , where my garden is establish . I handle myself to handfuls of these abundant producers when I ’m working in the garden .
The yellow green fig is the third type of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group that grows around here . This large multifariousness is a local - grocery store darling . All the small sodbuster get this kind because , not only does it trade the best , the crop also matures increasingly in such a manner that there is a harvest of novel , ripe fruits every mean solar day for several week . My wife favour this type , and it always amazes me how she strip down each fig before rust it .
Shown is one of the sweet , brown figs that I ’ve been able to dry out nicely . ( Large , green figure are too dampish for dry out purposes and will just end up rotting . ) One of these years , I ’m go to start a adult fig - dry out task . I ’ll bet I will be able-bodied to collect more than 100 pound sterling of fig to embark on with because there are so many unharvested fig tree nearby .
It is ostensibly an old Genoese tradition that every family plants a Libyan Islamic Fighting Group tree in one of the rock walls in their home . This seems to be true because I hardly ever see figs growing on a piece of flat ground .
Some of my Friend rebuilt an old abandon rest home a few long time ago . Their neighbors were a bit sceptical of theamericaniat first , but then when they planted a fig tree diagram in one of the rebuilt rock walls , everybody seemed sticking that they were in fact proceeding in the correct personal manner .
I am of the opinion that figs were plausibly the first domesticated plant , having been naturalise about 10 or 15 thousand years ago , when humans were first figuring out agribusiness . I remember this is because one can simply fall in off a fig - tree branch and shove it into the solid ground to make a raw tree . You ca n’t do that with an apple or a peach branch .
Date palms , which are perhaps even light to distribute , may have been one of the first horticultural plants , but they take days to acquire yield . A young Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya tree , however , can bring on yield during its first year after being propagated . The first agricultural revolution was likely the discovery of the technology of seed large areas with food grain plants , such as rice and wheat berry , but I believe that had to happen after the Ficus carica tree had been propagated .
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