Quote Originally Posted by PeteS View Post
a bumper crop of figs
I've had a couple of fig trees for a few years, but no fruit apart from 4 or 5 which have formed but never come to much before the cold weather has killed them off. Are you doing anything in particular in order to get edible fruit? And I think I read somewhere that boiled fig leaves are edible. (Although, of course, something being edible doesn't necessarily mean that it's nice or worth preparing!) Have you ever tried eating the leaves?

Plenty of apples and pears, although just about every one has large holes where the birds have pecked at them. I spread a few windfalls around the rest of the garden, in the hope that the birds will concentrate on them and leave the fruit on the trees alone, but they just won't play by the rules.