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Give your kid a B.B. gun and tell him to protect the tree

Thanks guys including the BB comment.

Figs won’t ripen off the tree. An old Cajun trick is to tie shiny aluminum disposable pie tins to the tree branches; when the wind blows, the pans flutter, scaring off the birds. NB, the bold arse mocking birds in my yard aren’t scared by cats, raccoons, the garbage truck, or me more than 24” away, so I dunno if the pie pan trick has been learned and widely disseminated among the mockingbird brethren.

I planted a fig 5 years ago, to date I have eaten exactly 6 ripe figs from it. It’s pretty much just a big natural bird feeder.

If you do get figs, try making a fig upside down cake. Exactly like pineapple, but substitute quartered figs for the pineapple.

Fig trees also attracts RATS..I sharpened my shooting skills as a kid.

My neighbor's cats hang out in my yard a lot, but that doesn't stop the birds from pecking away at my figs. If I'm lucky, I can get some from the lower branches, but the day they ripen, the birds are on the job.

Unfortunately, my tree seems to dying all of a sudden. There's one limb which went completely dead. The leaves are yellowing and falling off on one side of the tree. The other side looks okay. It's a strange tree. Half of it was lost during Gustav, but some new growths appeared and it's been filling out more and more.