The Figs Are Banging

The figs are huge, ripe and copious.  Today I picked about 20 which were about as close to perfect as figs get and brought them as a gift to a friend in Lincoln Heights who was butchering some of his roosters.  He gave me rooster meat in return.  

Searching the internet now for recipes. Coq au vin is the most popular but there are some other stew recipes.  I’ll try one this week.

It’s been a while since my last post so a couple of things to report.  The Ana apple tree is coming close to the end of its run.  The apples were huge and although not as fantastic as the first season still pretty damn good.  I dropped off about 15 lbs with my neighbor across the street who promised to make an apple pie for me.  I’m still waiting for the delivery.  Will post a photo when it arrives. :-)

The tomatoes are great and zucchinis more than abundant but I’ve been missing lettuces so I planted a few seeds today.  

Here’s the list:

Name	Planted	Emerge	Maturity
Lettuce Mesclun (Lactuca sativa)	8/8	8/15 (5-10 days)	9/23 (45 days)
Lettuce Leaf Oak Leaf blend (Lactuca sativa)	8/8	8/15 (5-10 days)	9/23 (45 days)

Oregano	8/8	8/18 (8-14 days)	n/a
Curly Parsley Perejil musgo crespo	8/8	9/10 (21-28 days)	n/a

The two lettuces went into the side garden raised bed next to the tomatoes (where the bok choi were).  The oregano and parsley into pots.  Look at the germination time for the parsley – 28 days!  Must be a record.  

It’s normally too hot to planted lettuce now but I will harvest as baby lettuce before it has a chance to bolt.

As for the organic acetic acid herbicide in the last post, it works quite well on everything except crab and bermuda grass, the two grasses which seem to just not die.