Figs & Rhubarb!

Both the fig tree and rhubarb plant are growing!  This year we can actually harvest some of the stalks from the rhubarb and what is very exciting is that two of the three plants made it through the winter. Lots of home grown, home made rhubarb crumble to come.

And figs!  The tree is covered in tiny bulbous bits that will soon turn into delicious figs.  We don't do a thing to this tree and it produces so much fruit every year.  I have now perfected my jam so this year I will attempt to make fig bars, or fig newtons as I called them growing up.  What will be so great about fig bars is that I can make them and mail them to a certain clever girl out west whose fig tree still isn't producing....